Something like 30% of the addons I have in firefox update every other week and feel the need to pop open a tab about how awesome they are and all the cool things they changed. I just don't care at all and I'm very annoyed by these news tabs. When firefox opens, I want to see my home page. I've been looking for an addon to disable or kill them before I even have to look at them. Rather like addblock-for-addons.
Short of finding a plugin that disables them, I'm seeking information about common interfaces so I can try to figure it out on my own. I'm wondering if I could do it in greasemonkey somehow. For example, is there something common about the url for the tabs?
Best Answer
One option is to globally disable automatic updates of add-ons. This means that you can manually update add-ons - and deal with update news - at your leisure.
Clearly this has the disadvantage that your add-ons are not automatically updated. But Firefox (at least in version 4 beta 11) can be configured to automatically check for updates to add-ons (in
Options>Advanced>Update), but without installing them (by deselectingUpdate Add-ons Automaticallyin the settings inAdd-ons Manager).