Have just discovered that unchecking:otropogo wrote:
One concern I have about these automatic upgrades is that in the past, I've lost all my passwords and had to reconstitute them. More rarely, my bookmarks have been lost in the course of one of these upgrades too.
And they definitely are automatic. I remember quite clearly creating a directory, saving the 2.1 release notes and uninstall_install pages, then clicking on the download tab, seeing the browser's options to open the archive and choosing instead to save the file to disk.
And indeed, the archive is in the new directory, unopened, with the two html pages. No prompt to install the new version ever displayed on my system, yet here it is...
Help/About Seamonkey displays:
Ouch! Have just discovered the explanation. Sometime in September or earlier (the updates history in Preferences/advanced/installation ends there), when I was still running Lucid 5.2.8_x, there was a security update 2.4.1.Seamonkey
version 2.10
You are currently on the release update channel.
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I've now unchecked the add-on 'download and install' options, and also the
update ones, but left the option to 'check daily' for updates checked.
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Preferences/advanced/sofware installation/Seamonkey/Automatically download and install updates
will NOT prevent Seamonkey from automatically downloading and updating itself.
Here's what happened today. I went online with Seamonkey, and while I was in Google mail, it popped up a new page and announced that an update was available.
While I was trying to read the page, the screen went black, and when I hit the space bar in order to bring back the display, the page said that the Seamonkey update had been downloaded and would be installed when I restarted Seamonkey. I could see no option to cancel.
So it's not clear to me what checking or unchecking this option is supposed to accomplish. I had hoped to at least be able to save my passwords before the update was installed, but don't like to do this while online. I guess the only solution is to shut off the internet connection mechanically when this message appears, then make a copy of the passwords before reconnecting restarting the browser.
But to be sure to avoid having the update automatically installed, it appears you have to uncheck the "automatically check for updates" option.