Firefox -- should "check for updates" be disabled?

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:25:08PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > It's nice that Firefox has a built-in check-for-updates feature. But, I
> > think it should be disabled by default (or even patched out) on Fedora Core.
> newest firefox build in development should have this disabled.
>  rpm -q --changelog firefox |head
> * Sat Oct 16 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 0:0.10.1-1.0PR1.12
> - Disable the default application checks. (#133713)
> - Disable the software update feature. (#136017)

Heh. Right then. That update wasn't in my rawhide mirror when I'd looked.


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