On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 7:54:17 AM UTC-4, Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote: > Bob wrote: > > I've used Seamonkey in the past, and really liked the way I could work on > > my 'personal' website with the software. I stopped using it when it was > > declared "obsolete" a few years ago. > > > > I am being forced to abandon Firefox, which I've been using for around 15 > > years now (and really liked, until the later iterations). I work from home, > > and absolutely CANNOT have software automatically install updates and force > > me to shut down (without being able to access another website to alert > > people). I've tried all of the tricks I could find to prevent automatic > > installation of updates, but nothing has worked, and I do NOT want to loose > > my job because of the programmers refusing to listen to reason. > > > > (1): Can I LOCK OUT automatic installation of updates? I MUST be able to > > choose when updating happens. > > > > (2): How up-to-date is Seamonkey kept? I already have strong security on my > > system, but need to avoid security holes. > > > > (3) How easy is it now to migrate Bookmarks, passwords, and so on? > > > > (4): "Bonus" question - is the composer still part of Seamonkey? > > > > I use Ubuntu 18:04 LTS - switched to it around the time I abandoned Office > > and IE (for security and other valid reasons). > > > > Thanks! > > > > Bob > > > If all you want is to stop FF updating, look at > https://www.journeybytes.com/disable-firefox-quantum-updates/ . > > I had the reverse problem in a previous job, I wanted to be able to > install FF updates (the automatic ones there had several deficiencies) > so I had to find out how they had disabled them and reverse it. > They had set something up in the Policies which I had to remove again. > Looking at my notes from back then, > - defaults\pref\local-settings.js contained a pointer (filename) to a > file mozilla.cfg > - this mozilla.cfg had a large number of really irritating settings. > > Bottom line, do a search on: firefox local-settings.js mozilla.cfg > and you will see how to change defaults. This is normally used for > company-wide policies. > > -- > spammo ergo sum, viruses courtesy of https://www.nsa.gov/malware/
None of that really works for me... I don't use Windows, and the Linux version is completely different. I don't mind FF downloading the update, I just CANNOT have it install it until I"m ready - and FF has changed how to disable auto-install several times now, with each time being completely different. If they changed again and I was at a critical point - I could lose my job - at least making for a VERY bad day. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
