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I wonder if you'll have to remember to do this after each update, like you have to do for most of Chrome's unwanted and unwelcomed features.

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Probably not. These settings have been around for a long time already anyway, and they never get overwritten once set, at least in my experience.

When you haven't used Firefox for a while it shows a prompt that tricks you into resetting your profile.

They already did this way back with their other telemetry stuff. You had to disable it through about:config and then Mozilla introduced new flags/renamed them and even added a flag if you have disabled telemetry that you had to disable again manually.

It might be possible to disable this feature through a policy file [1] just like other features can be disabled, e.g. here's how to disable auto-update:

   {
   "policies": 
      {
        "DisableAppUpdate": true
       }
   }

Create a text file named policies.json in a directory named distribution inside the Firefox installation directory. In my case that ends up looking like this:

   /opt/APPfirefox (package root)
   /opt/APPfirefox/firefox (currrent nightly)
   /opt/APPfirefox/bin/firefox-127.0a1 -> /opt/APPfirefox/firefox/firefox-127.0a1
   /opt/APPfirefox/distribution/policies.json

The browser sees this file and abides by its contents. Open about:policies#documentation in Firefox to see which policies can be configured this way.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

Apparently not, at least for this update.

I had the settings disabled, then updated to the latest version ("126.0 (64-bit)") and settings were kept disabled.

So at least for now it looks like it respects your current settings.

Only time will tell, but I don't think I've ever had that issue with Firefox so far.

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