[iamevn]

I updated my browser and when it finished I was greeted by this ad. Now I'm figuring out how to disable notifications that an update is available and prevent checking for them entirely so that I don't get shown an ad because I made the mistake of updating a piece of software.

Doesn't this sort of endorsement require disclosure? Not a lawyer but I would expect there to be something marking the content of the page as an advertisement. Some cursory browsing of what looks like relevant FTC pages (I and Mozilla are both American) seems to support this[1].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...

[perihelions]

- "Now I'm figuring out how to disable notifications that an update is available and prevent checking for them entirely so that I don't get shown an ad because I made the mistake of updating a piece of software."

I haven't tested it, but this page describes an about:config flag that apparently inhibits the /whatsnew/ page:

https://kb.mozillazine.org/Startup.homepage_override_url

    If browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone is set to "ignore", the browser's homepage will not be overridden after updates.