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by cdubzzz 2068 days ago
Settings one is interesting, it does appear that you cannot block it[0] and that is sad.

The other two appear to be safe browsing and automatic update related. Those two services can be disabled form the regular settings UI, I think? Have you found that to not work?

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
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m463 2068 days ago
It did not work for a long time

Then I blocked it and got this constant nag pane "Firefox cannot update to the latest version". all. the. time.

I finally found out some magic on macos:

  sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox DisableAppUpdate -bool TRUE
  sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox EnterprisePoliciesEnabled -bool TRUE
that got rid of the nag pane
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cdubzzz 2068 days ago
Interesting reference re: the settings URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598562#c13

Reasoning there seems good enough but I’m not sold on it being absolutely required.

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