Firefox -- should "check for updates" be disabled?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:45:48 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> It's nice that Firefox has a built-in check-for-updates feature. But, I
> think it should be disabled by default (or even patched out) on Fedora Core.
newest firefox build in development should have this disabled.

 rpm -q --changelog firefox |head
* Sat Oct 16 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 0:0.10.1-1.0PR1.12

- Disable the default application checks. (#133713)
- Disable the software update feature. (#136017)

* Wed Oct 13 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com>

- Use pango for rendering