# Firefox setup questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-setup-questions/638660>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 23, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-setup-questions/638660 "2012-10-23T20:41:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-setup-questions/638660/1 "2012-10-23T20:41:25Z")

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I recently downloaded Firefox at work, and it has a couple of annoying quirks that I didn’t remember from when I did it at home some time back.

1. It keeps popping up something at the top to tell me that I need to update my plugins. Is there a way to disable this popping up? I looked at the options, and I didn’t see anything there.

2. There is one tiny thing that IE does that I like better than Firefox: when I close IE, it re-sets the Favorites list so that all the sub-lists are closed. Firefox doesn’t do that. Can it be made to do that?  
Roddy

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-setup-questions/638660/2 "2012-10-23T20:49:54Z")

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for updates

Tools -\> Options -\> Advanced -\> Updates

uncheck for addons

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-setup-questions/638660/3 "2012-10-23T22:35:38Z")

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The only thing I see on Tools\>Options\>Advanced\>Updates is a checkbox for “warn me if this will disable any of my addons.” I don’t see anything to stop checking for addon updates.

Or are you referring to the radio button for Automatically install updates? That doesn’t seem to be what I want.  
Roddy

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-setup-questions/638660/4 "2012-10-23T23:10:30Z")

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my version on this computer isn’t current. i don’t have more recent version up at the moment.