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> Mozilla decided to force-feed me an upgrade to new browser tech that I didn't ask for https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ https://www.mozill
by eganist 9y ago
> Mozilla decided to force-feed me an upgrade to new browser tech that I didn't ask for
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
That's one thing the Firefox ESR is designed to mitigate. If sequential automatic upgrades weren't quite up your alley, this might have been the right solution for you at the time.
- jacquesm 9y agoWhich I had installed, which happily upgraded to FF 57. (I still don't get how that happened the first time, it could have been Ubuntu doing the upgrade, it could have been FF itself but I don't have time to dig this out and I'm not even sure if it is something I'll be able to prove one way or the other.) I've gone so far now as to drop any mozilla.org domains through DNS hacks to make sure this never ever happens again, because after I downgraded it the first time it happily immediately updated back to 57 in spite of having all auto-update settings switched to off. Back to 52.5 it is for me. No more tricks like that. Which is sad because if there is a critical security vulnerability in this browser I'm likely not going to notice immediately.