On 09/17/2010 07:39 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: > I've just been hit with SeaMonkey's automatic upgrade (from 2.0.7 to > 2.0.8) even though the installer never said it was setting things up > for automatic upgrade, and I never explicitly gave permission for > SeaMonkey to make changes like that to my machine. > > I don't recall--how do I reconfigure SeaMonkey not to automatically > install anything until I say so? > > (A higher-level question: (Unless I somehow missed a clear notification > at installation time,) why the heck was SeaMonkey changed to make > changes to the user's software configuration without explicit permission > and prior notification? That is NOT trustworthy behavior. I'd expect > that from Microsoft or Adobe or something.)
See this thread: "SeaMonkey v2.0.5 to v2.0.6 update didn't prompt me!" 07/25/2010 Note my comments in that thread... I suspect that this is one of the reasons for the 'fire drill' transition from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8; auto update contributed to the skyrocketed the crash stats. IMO it *is* a security issue so I've disabled all SM autoupdates on all of my machines as well as my customer/relative/friend/enemy machines. Also see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/SeaMonkey/versions/2.0.7 http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/SeaMonkey/versions/2.0.8 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
