[tor-talk] automatic Tor browser updates

Cain Ungothep ungocain at yandex.com
Sun Feb 14 13:02:14 UTC 2016


>>> For those who wish to update manually, is it sufficient to toggle
>>> app.update.auto in about:config to false?
>>
>> Seems so. You will still be prompted to update through the MAR system,
>> but it won't happen automatically.
>
> Today I discovered that TBB 5.5.2 automatically downloaded. That hasn't
> happened before. Normally I am prompted and manually download the tar
> bundle with the signature file which I check with gpg --verify.
>
> I'm confused as to why this time I received an automatic download. Any
> thoughts?

Are you sure the preference was set? Maybe the tarball contents overwrote the
file where your custom preferences where stored?

If you can reproduce it then file a bug.


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