If this is not enough, they also include a “sticky” update notification in the hamburger menu just to further remind you of the urgency of the update.įirefox comes bundled with a list of Enterprise Policies which can be viewed by going to the address about:policies and choosing Documentation. Now, this option would have been slightly bearable were it not for the annoying update notification that pop-ups a few minutes into a new browsing session. In place of the now defunct option, Mozilla seems to expect such users to make do with the check updates and notify to install option. This is all good, but it takes away from the countless more, usually the more experienced tech-savvy crowd, the choice to make this decision at their own discretion.
Now I’m not sure what prompted this decision, but if I were allowed to speculate then the most likely reason is that Mozilla is merely trying to protect users from themselves that is, pushing security updates they deem urgent and that would otherwise go ignored by some users. Check for updates but let you choose to install them.Automatically install updates (recommended).They however left two of the three original options: In Firefox Quantum, the Mozilla team removed the option to Never check for updates in the browser’s update settings.
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