Re: firefox extension auto updates

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 01:06:06PM +0000, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It turns out that firefox will auto-update for extensions daily (the one
> from pkgsrc, too).
> 
> We generally disable the auto updating of programs (libreoffice, firefox
> etc all have the ability). should I look for a way to disable this
> option by default, too? it's a single config flag -
> 'extensions.update.enabled'.
> 
> Is this something we want to do?

We are talking about Javascript-only code, typically. That can be safely
updated. Native code like in LibreOffice on the other hand doesn't play
very nicely with that.

Joerg