{"id":3348,"date":"2007-11-07T11:52:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T10:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/tip-disable-extensions-update-security-in-firefox\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:41:16","slug":"tip-disable-extensions-update-security-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tip-disable-extensions-update-security-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Disable extensions update security in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extensions are probably the main reason why I use Firefox for my daily web browsing. I honestly couldn&#8217;t see myself living without All-In-One Gestures, Flashblock or the del.icio.us extension. Most of these can be downloaded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla addons site<\/a>, but every now and then you come across an extension that hasn&#8217;t made it onto the official Firefox site. The trouble is, with increased security in the upcoming Firefox 3, automatic updates for those extensions that don&#8217;t come from the Mozilla addons site might not be supported. Rest assured though, there&#8217;s an easy way to go around this protection.<\/p>\n<p>Type <strong>about:config <\/strong>in your URL address bar and press enter. This will display a list of all values and configuration files for your Firefox in your browser window. Next, right click and select <strong>New&gt;Boolean<\/strong> (just like you see below).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creating the new key\" id=\"image3351\" title=\"Creating the new key\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/11\/ext1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This will open up a pop up window, into which you&#8217;ll have to type <strong>extensions.checkUpdateSecurity<\/strong>. Select <strong>False<\/strong> and press Ok.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Key value\" id=\"image3352\" title=\"Key value\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/11\/ext2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With this done, you should have no trouble updating any Mozilla extension. However try not messing around with this feature too much though as it can open up a security breach in your browser.<\/p>\n<p>[Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/cybernetnews.com\/2007\/10\/19\/helpful-tip-firefox-secure-updates-extension-warning\/\">Cybernet]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extensions are probably the main reason why I use Firefox for my daily web browsing. I honestly couldn&#8217;t see myself living without All-In-One Gestures, Flashblock or the del.icio.us extension. Most of these can be downloaded from the Mozilla addons site, but every now and then you come across an extension that hasn&#8217;t made it onto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tip-disable-extensions-update-security-in-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tip: Disable extensions update security in Firefox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336789,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/336789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}