Prevent firefox from updating

Question

I'm writing some python tests using selenium 2.25.0 and the Firefox webdriver.

I previously had Firefox version 16 (which worked just perfectly), but now it automatically updated itself to version 18, which is causing a lot of problems with my version of selenium and I want Firefox to prevent from updating if I haven't approved so.

I've found that the linux version of Firefox doesn't come with the option in Preferences > Advanced > Update tab to tell it to ask me what to do when a new version is available.

I've tried with selenium==2.26.0 and it kinda works for me locally, but unfortunately updating the version of selenium is no a suitable option since these tests have a while in production.

I already have Firefox 16 binaries and I need it to stay in such version.

Is there any way to accomplish this under Ubuntu 12.04?

Thanks in advance for any help? :)

P.D. I don't care for any add-ons incompatibility, I don't need them so it's ok that some add-ons are not available after solving this.

Answer 1

Use about:config to set app.update.enabled and app.update.auto to False.