Why does Firefox install updates even though I told it NOT TO ??

I have (I mean "had") Firefox 17.0 on Windows 7 64-bit.
In Options -> Advanced -> Update I selected to "Never check for updates".
Also, in "about:config":
- app.update.auto is false
- app.update.enabled is false
- browser.search.update is false
I didn't change these settings for months.
I basically don't want that idiot auto-update thing to work. I want to update my browser when I want to update my browser. And it kind of worked for a while: I updated from FF 12.0 directly to 17.0.
But today I just started my browser like I always do and it just updated itself to v18.0. WTF ??? Why is it soooo hard for Firefox to understand that: I WILL UPDATE YOU WHEN AND IF I WANT !!!
Is there some hidden setting that I missed or what ?
EDIT: I just realized what the problem was... it was kind of my fault (but not really)... You may delete this question.

I also have this problem of Firefox updating by itself even when I turn off auto-update.
For whatever reason, there are situations where you do not want to update or download a large file, because you're working offline, have a slow connection, or have a very low download allowance etc. Usually the update doesn't work and cause Firefox to crash. After that it cannot be started again. This is with Firefox Portable but I think I've had this problem the normal Firefox. With the portable version I can just back up a single folder but it is still time wasting and annoying.
I've noticed that when I start Firefox with auto-update turned off, it changes the options to auto-update, it also does this periodically. So every time I start Firefox I have to turn off auto-update, and I have to do this from to time because Firefox will by itself turn back on the auto-update.

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