How to set Firefox to be "silent"?

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Turn off Mozilla Firefox warning that there are new Firefox add-ons

Firefox sometimes pops-up stating that there are updates for it, or an Add-on has been updated, etc.

How can make Firefox silent, so that it will only update itself/add-ons in the background, and doesn't pops-up with a message??*1

in the "about:config"

app.update.silent;false

setting this to true? what does it do?

*1 = because non-IT people will use PCs, and they don't know what to do, when a message pops up..

p.s.: Firefox 3.6/Scientific Linux

just set it to _never to check for updates_. (it will not pop up any messages but you'll have to run check for updates manually) — Dan D., Dec 18 '11 at 15:13
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/27113/why-are-there-firefox-3-6-in-the-linux-repositories — LanceBaynes, Dec 18 '11 at 15:33
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/update-notifier/ — LanceBaynes, Dec 20 '11 at 23:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 29 '12 at 09:00

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true all update prompting should be suppressed

false show prompts to the user when there are events they should respond to

edited Sep 29 '12 at 09:00

Peter Mortensen

answered Dec 18 '11 at 23:53

Mr.Wizard

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/update-notifier/ – LanceBaynes Dec 20 '11 at 23:12

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