That seems like pure naivete. Two can play that game.

A little over a year or so ago I downloaded Firefox. It kept bugging me for updates. But I didn't want these pestering updates. Erstwhile, I could just disable updating with a single unchecking of a box. But they changed it to make it almost impossible to disable updates. I never put enough effort into figuring it out.

Firefox is getting just like Microsoft, Apple, FaceBook, GNOME, etc. "We set the policy, it's our software, you're just the user."

I switched to Debian, which managed to sort all this nonsense out, thankfully.

It is extremely dangerous to use a browser that is not fully up-to-date.

Security patches and general updates are not distinct anymore. You might aswell end up with more bugs by updating.

It should still be the user's choice.

I'm using Firefox Nightly and it lets me manually control when updates are installed.

Alternatively, on Linux you can use the distro Firefox package and control its updates that way.