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Re:Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming by Marsymars on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:45PM (#19579209)
Maybe, but in some similar cases, it's marked as "won't fix": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502188

If you configure Firefox to not automatically update, and then use, say, a package manager to update it, automatic updates will get re-enabled.

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Re:Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming by yoasif_ on Monday April 15, 2019 @05:10AM (#19664099)
> If you configure Firefox to not automatically update, and then use, say, a package manager to update it, automatic updates will get re-enabled.

That isn't what the bug report says - package managers don't use the Firefox installer. Are you talking about a real bug (if so, is it logged?), or are you spreading FUD?

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Re:Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming by Marsymars on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:41PM (#19721559)
Depends on the package manager. On Windows both Ninite and Chocolatey use the Firefox installer and re-enable Firefox's automatic updates.
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Re:Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming by sanxiyn on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:57PM (#19579262)
On the other hand, Firefox does respect locked preferences after update. Debian sets both app.update.enabled and toolkit.telemetry.enabled locked to false.
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