How can I rollback a automatic update
I have Thunderbird installed on a OpenSuse computer and it recently did a automatic update that changed some features that I need. Is there a way to roll back the update?
The full and partial updates (whether it be Thunderbird, Firefox or SeaMonkey) from mozilla.org are only provided to the official builds and not builds built yourself or by a third-party.
The openSUSE and other Linux distro provided builds have their own ways of package updates in their package manager.
However if the poster is using Thunderbird for Linux from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ (64-bit Linux is on ftp) then those preferences would be valid and work.
Nothing is being gutted as it has been this way since forever with third-party builds whether on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
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Hi,
I just installed CentOS on a new virtual machine for testing. I need to run Firefox 28 on it.
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... sorry if that seems rude, I just know what sort of replies get posted here whenever someone suggests using an older browser. I do get why people give such advice. I do understand the benefits of keeping computers that connect to the internet up to date. This particular Virtual Machine won't actually be used to connect to the internet... just to a test website on an intranet.
So the problem I have is that this installation of CentOS 6.4 (x64) comes with Firefox 31. When it first opens, before I have a chance to toggle off update checking, it begins downloading Firefox 35.0.1 and I haven't figured out how to abort the download. I thought about killing the task, but I feared what that might do. So I let it update to Firefox 35 and thought I'd just downgrade it to Firefox 28 afterwards.
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quote from
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regards,
deanThe full and partial updates (whether it be Thunderbird, Firefox or SeaMonkey) from mozilla.org are only provided to the official builds and not builds built yourself or by a third-party.
The openSUSE and other Linux distro provided builds have their own ways of package updates in their package manager.
However if the poster is using Thunderbird for Linux from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ (64-bit Linux is on ftp) then those preferences would be valid and work.
Nothing is being gutted as it has been this way since forever with third-party builds whether on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. -
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HOW CAN I START DOWNLOADS AUTOMATICALLY? I DON'T NEED TOO SEE THE SAVE OR DISCARD BOX. THIS BUGS THE CRAP OUT OF ME. CAN I CHANGE THIS, OR ARE WE FORCED TO DO WHAT YOU THINK IS BEST? THANKS, KEITH D.
Hey, Jeff...
I don't know how I could have made my question any more clear -- so let me try approaching it the other way around, and refer back to your answer(s).
You've been responding by saying that it's okay for me to remove the Creative Cloud versions of my software, but I don't have any Creative Cloud versions installed! I'm not talking about that at all, I'm talking about the software for Creative Cloud itself -- I don't use it, I don't need it, I don't want it, and all it does is nag me, telling me that there's updates for it (Creative Cloud). I have the full Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard bought and paid for, I have no reason nor need to "rent" any later versions, I'm just talking about the Creative Cloud software itself that got installed on my system when I installed that suite of programs.
Like I said, I don't use Creative Cloud at all -- all it does is "nag" me, and eat up space on my hard drive. When I go in my Windows Control Panel and look at my list of installed programs, there it is -- "Adobe Creative Suite" -- and it's listed separately from "Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard" (of which I've only installed Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign, basically, as those are the only programs I use at all at the moment). Can I just uninstall "Adobe Creative Suite" without it affecting "Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard", i.e. my Photoshop, etc. will still work just fine, and I can still get updates and stuff? And by "updates" I don't mean get later versions of Photoshop, etc., I just mean any possible updates to the software that I do already have (that comes with Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard).
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on my windows 8.1 pc (i5 processor with 8GB ram) I can't get the automatic update voor CS4 master collection. I removed my panda antivirus and still can't automatically update. somebody any suggestion?
thanks for your reply.
in Dutch it says that there are no updates available. I know that after
installing cs4 there are updates but i can't load them automatically. I did
a delete and reinstall, but still get the message.
kind regards,
2014-09-23 16:28 GMT+02:00 Atul_saini123 <[email protected]>:
on my windows 8.1 pc (i5 processor with 8GB ram) I can't get the
automatic update voor CS4 master collection. I removed my panda antivirus
and still can't automatically update. somebody any suggestion? created
by Atul_saini123 <https://forums.adobe.com/people/Atul_saini123> in *Downloading,
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