The US company behind the Mozilla Suite already had a browser running in 2002, but they wanted to escape Netscape’s sponsorship restrictions. Launched by the Mozilla Foundation in 2003, the open-source program has undergone several name changes, face-lifts, and updates to become the class software it is today. Note: The 32bit VALUE applies to both Windows 32-bit and 64-bit releases.Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser for Windows and Mac operating systems. Give this entry the name "DisableAppUpdate" with the value 1.
Inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Policies -> Mozilla -> Firefox right click in the right hand side of the window to create a new "DWORD 32bit VALUE" entry. Select the new created "Mozilla" key and create a new sub-key "Firefox" within it. Right-click on "Policies" and create a new key "Mozilla". HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Policies Stop/close Firefox, then open up the Windows Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and navigate to the following key: Using Registry Editor to disable automatic Firefox app updates Luckily there's a setting to disable the automatic update. For such legacy applications, an older browser with EOL extensions are required. Or VMware's vSphere user interface, which uses Adobe Flash in its "Flex" UI (parallel to the newer HTML5 UI).
The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) is such an example older UCS servers require Adobe Flash to load the user interface.
For example when there's need to access an outdated management interface (hopefully in the internal networks only!) requiring old plugins/extensions which are now disabled (e.g. Mozilla's Firefox browser automatically downloads and installs a new Firefox in the background – which is then activated at the next start.Īlthough this is a very good security concept, there might be problems with a newer Firefox version.
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