[tor-talk] TBB 2.2.32 & Automatic Updates

[Erinn Clark]

* cgp3cg <cgp3cg at gmail.com> [2011:09:05 16:19 +1000]: 
> Hi,
> 
> Just downloaded TBB 2.2.32 for Linux
> (tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.2.32-3-dev-en-US.tar.gz) and was surprised
> to find FF set to automatically check for and download updates. This
> seems like a significant change, and I can't find a record in my
> archives, nor in a quick scan through the changelog.
> 
> Was this deliberate and did I miss something?

No, this is not deliberate and must be a bug. The prefs.js we ship has:

user_pref("app.update.auto", false);
user_pref("app.update.enabled", false);

https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob/maint-2.2:/build-scripts/config/no-polipo-4.0.js

We enabled addon updates because we believe it is safer, but that is a
different setting. I see in my own TBB that app.update.auto has been set to
true, but I certainly didn't make it that way either as a user or developer.

Thanks for noticing, I'm going to add fixing this to our next update (September
10th).
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