How to stop the FORCED Firefox 29 update?

I am testing with Palemoon and so on but for now I still have Firefox 28 and that is what I want.
I did disable everything to prevent the automatic updating (Advanced / Updates / Never controle). In about:config is also says:
app.update.service.enabled = false
app.update.auto = false
app.update.enabled = false
app.update.silent = false
Yet Firefox 29 keeps on being forced down my throat? Now again: I get a little pop-up saying that version 29.0.1 is available and downloaded. And when checking under Help / About Firefox it says I have to restart Firefox to do the update? And sure enough: I close Firefox 28 and start it again and it is updating to version 29. And this is not an incident: when searching for it, many people have the same problem.
So, how to stop this forced update?

@ guigs2
I know, thanks :)
But without wanting to start another discussion (I did that with this topic https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/998106 which is closed now after many views and votes), I am one of the many many people who refuse to go to FF29 because of numerous reasons of which amongst are the fact that it looks hideous, way less customizable in default state (have to use way more add-ons to get it the we want), feeling Mozilla is stabbing the users who made Firefox big, in the back with FF29, and so on.
So still at FF28 until I find a good replacement and say goodbye to Firefox after using it from version 1 till now :(

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