Kill auto-updating in Firefox 30.0?

How can I disable auto-updating in Firefox 30.0?
Then how to do it manually?
(I HATE morning surprises followed by troubleshooting FF browsers on 4 laptops,)
Thanks...
(Lion 10.7.5)

Sorry, Marketing was a bad choice of words. Perhaps, “a narrow perspective” would have been a more accurate and less pejorative expression. I apologize.
What struck me about the reply was that it was totally Firefox-centric and not a user (this user’s) friendly push.
I know updating makes things safer and better and I always update. But, it’s the nurse coming into the hospital room at 3:00am to give you your medicine. I don’t need meds at that hour. It wakes me up. I lose sleep. I am being denied rest and sleep because the floor nurse is behind her meds rounds. That’s what is so irritating about being injected with an update without warning.
To be honest, I can’t recall all the little “re-jiggering” moments that occur, but they do occur. Usually, it’s its a feature that disappears from my customized theme that I require for my normal usage. I’ll lose things from the Toolbars that I previously installed and must relocate them again, usually right in the middle of a function. That’s distracting and irritating.
Just tell me that there is an update and I’ll make a little convenient time period of five minutes to perform the update.
It feels good when I perform the upgrade task. It feels somehow invasive when someone just shoves it up my browser when I’m not looking. Simple. Why is this so hard to understand?
It’s human, not technical.
Again, this question is still unanswered; Is there a way I can be notified of an update that I can perform at my own convenience?
--JP

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Some Firefox issues can be resolved by downloading a new Firefox installer from Mozilla.com, then closing Firefox, deleting the Firefox application folder (program files) and reinstalling Firefox. If this does not help, or if you would rather completely remove Firefox and start over instead of completing all the troubleshooting steps, follow these steps:
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