How to disable Plugin Check from opening every time browser opens

Every time I open firefox, "plugin check" opens. Even after I installed and updated all plugins, the plugin-check appears whenever firefox opens. After updating all the plugins I restarted my pc, reset the browser and checked to make sure that my home page has not been changed the firefox plugin change, disabled all my plugins and even tried blocking the website via HOSTS.
I am fully capable of checking to see if my browser and plugins are up-to-date and I don't appreciate the unnecessary waste of time with this plugin-check running every single time the browser opens. Similar to updates, this should be an OPTIONAL check not FORCED and there should be a simple way to disable it without having the browser open an extra blank tab or requiring the user to edit the about:config to work around it.
Website: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

Hello defuz2013, go to [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config about:config] find '''plugins.update.url''' and change it the value to an empty string.
also change the '''plugins.hide_infobar_for_outdated_plugin''' to TRUE
then check firefox again
thank you

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