How to Disable Check for updates button in Help/About in firefox 5.0

Hi the user should not manually check for updates so we want to disable the Check for updates button also in Help/About.
Thanks in advanced

You can hide that button with code in userChrome.css below the @namespace line.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration
You can use the ChromEdit Plus or Stylish extension to have easier access to the customization files.
* ChromEdit Plus: http://webdesigns.ms11.net/chromeditp.html
<pre><nowiki>@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#aboutDialog #updateBox { display:none!important; }</nowiki></pre>
You can also choose to lock the related update pref(s) to false if you want to make sure.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

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