How to disable automatic updates in Firefox web browser

By default, Firefox automatically checks for updates for the web browser, installed add-ons and extensions. Further, it automatically downloads and installs the updates whenever a new version or a new update is detected. Then it requests users to restart Firefox so that the updates may take effect.

This automatic detection and installation of updates or upgrades slows down FireFox start-up and also may sometimes irritate the user by asking to quit FireFox and restart it.

This default behaviour of automatic detection and installation of updates and upgrades can be removed by following these steps:

1. Start Firefox web browser

2. Select ‘Options’ from the ‘Tools’ menu

3. Click on the ‘Advanced’ tab

4. Click on ‘Update’ sub-tab

5. Under the “Automatically check for updates to:” section, unselect the components for which you do not want the Firefox web browser to search for updates. If you do want Firefox to look for no updates you should unselect all the three options here.

6. Click OK.

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