[tbb-bugs] #20083 [Applications/Tor Browser]: `app.update.enabled` should remove updater UI elements when set to false.

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#20083: `app.update.enabled` should remove updater UI elements when set to false.
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 Reporter:  yawning                        |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement                    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                         |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                         |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-sandboxing, tbb-usability  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                                 |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                 |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by bugzilla):

 Replying to [comment:4 yawning]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 bugzilla]:
 > > Replying to [ticket:20083 yawning]:
 > > > If the updater is disabled, the UI elements associated with it
 should be hidden.
 > > `app.update.enabled` is about "update", not "updater", so everything
 is fine with it.
 >
 > I don't care what the pref is called, or if it's a separate pref, env
 var, or whatever, as long as it's possible.
 You don't care about Mozilla's prefs, they don't care about your needs ;)
 > > Why do you want to disable auto-updates? Mozilla even made a
 `MozillaMaintananceService` to circumvent different "sandboxes" in order
 to update "sandboxed" browser.
 >
 > Because a sandbox that lets the sandboxed app re-write itself is
 terrible.
 Not itself: browser asks the updater, updater asks for permissions,
 service or user grant them, and updater updates sandboxed browser. (Oh,
 what you've written is even more funny: every polymorphic virus re-writes
 itself in a sandbox :)
 > > And you just want to go back to manual updates.
 >
 > No.
 Phew.
 > > Or do you have something better?
 >
 > Yes.
 Another one updater?
 > ps: *plonk*
 P.S.: cheap wine of inferior quality? ;)

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