about:addons ☑ Exclude from updates (Updates: … 🔘 never)

[grahamperrin]

Example use case

Two extensions that I want to not update:

It's necessary to both:

1. disable automatic updates and
2. in the Install updates area, repeatedly deselect add-ons (e.g. de-select before any click on the Install Updates button.

Enhancement request

End the repetition by adding a feature to Waterfox,

☑ Exclude from updates

– selectable for any add-on.

[WagnerGMD]

lockPref("extensions.update.autoUpdateDefault",false);
lockPref("extensions.update.enabled",false);

Are you aware or you didn't find them ? It isn't good enough ?

Then to avoid the repetition, you can disable it in the meanwhile (until next Waterfox release). But you can't select the addon (because it will be disable at global).

[grahamperrin]

Thanks,

… disable at global).

– global is not what's required.

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From https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/how-to-turn-off-add-on-updates/#comment-210512 under How to turn off add-on updates | Mozilla Add-ons Blog:

… a per-extension setting. In other words, I should be able to disable updates for a specific extension. …

– that's what's required.

[MrAlex94]

Does the functionality of this page not fulfill your request of disable updates per add-on? Or is more that you'd like it to be available on the page you have specified?

[grahamperrin]

If automatic updates are switched off at that level, it does not prevent an update from appearing, and being selected, in response to a manual check.

That type of page might be the best place for an enhancement. (There, without 'cramming' the feature into any list of updates.)

I wonder whether ☑ Exclude from updates will be difficult for users to understand – if offered as a separate preference.

Instead, maybe something like this:

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Updates ◯ default ◯ automatic ◯ manual 🔘 never

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– four radio buttons, instead of three.

Then: a preference for 🔘 never followed by any type of check for updates can lead to the update being listed but not selected (its box not checked).

[grahamperrin]

Cross reference: I'd like a way to exclude addons from manual "update all" : waterfox

[grahamperrin]

These recent screenshots might help to clarify the use case.

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A simple manual check:

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I would like that to be followed by another simple, single action.

Instead I must not accept the default selection (everything); I must not click this button:

The restraint above is followed by five more clicks, to de-select each add-on that must not be updated:

Now, it's safe to click Install updates.

After the click, after completion of installations:

Side note: the tip 'Install available updates in this list' is wrong. The browser installed a subset (not what was available); and the tip should not appear when the button is greyed out.

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After clicking away from, then back to, Available updates:

• again, the browser preselects everything that must not be updated:

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[grahamperrin]

Found, thanks to --NRG-- in Reddit:

Add-on Update Checker

From Add-ons manager ▶ Available updates ▶ viewing version numbers – and avoiding unwanted updates : waterfox:

[grahamperrin]

Add-on Update Checker is effective, so I'll close this issue.

A screen recording: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SjZfxo7R34gP7iWP8

[Captain-FLAM]

@grahamperrin 👍

Please Re-open it, as I think this option is a "must have" included in Waterfox !!

Especially this one :

a preference for 🔘 never