As firefox does not be able to complete downloads iw ould like to disable its download manager

I have DAP as my default download manager.Sometimes tho Firefox decides to do the download it`s self.
These downloads hardly ever complete ,yet they indicate complete.
I would therefore like to disable Firefox download manager and rely totally on DAO.
Please advise.
Thank you
Michael

Welcome to the forum.
The updates on firefox, like many other things in firefox are customisable / customizable, you can set it for instance to notify you but not update, or you check manually for updates, or allow it to update automatically.
* see [[updating firefox]]
* you may also find [[software update failed]] useful
BTW you appear to be using an experimental beta version of firefox.
If you are new to firefox it may well be worth installing the current release firefox 3.6.
*otherwise
** you will remain on experimental versions and updates to those which you may not always want, - some may not always work or be compatible with other software
** you will not have the current stable version
You should then follow the instructions to create an additional 'profile' so that each version has its own profile, otherwise you are likely to run in to problems. ( The "profile" stores bookmarks and a lot of your important firefox data, you do not want that to get messed up with beta editions of software) If you ever uninstall firefox note the option to remove settings removes all data bookmarks etc from ALL installed versions of firefox. (Firefox normally, otherwise, does a good job of presering settings and bookmarks etc)
See
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_pre-release_versions
* [[profiles]] and [[managing profiles]]

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