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

[Matthew Miller]

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.
The first reason is simply that since the package is installed system-wide,
it's impossible for a regular user to use the internal update procedure to
do an update (it just generates confusing error messages), and worse,
inadvisable for a privleged root-access user to do so. If there's an update
available that people should upgrade to, new packages should be made
available, and the up2date mechanism should take care of notifying the user
and properly getting and applying the updates.

(Checking for updates to extensions should probably remain, though.)
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