Turn off update nag for Firefox Nightly? about nixpkgs-mozilla HOT 8 CLOSED

Fix in NixOS/nixpkgs#47330

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See https://www.technipages.com/enable-disable-automatic-updates-in-firefox

It would be cool to ship firefox with a custom prefs.js that turns this off automatically.

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this should be done in nixpkgs, since we use pkgs.firefox-bin-unwrapped.override to package firefox nightly

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i actually think i did this at one point.

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I found this in the unwrapped package:

$ cat usr/lib/firefox-bin-64.0a1/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js 
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */

pref("app.update.channel", "nightly");

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the patchPhase in pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox-bin/default.nix is supposed to change that:

  patchPhase = ''
    sed -i -e '/^pref("app.update.channel",/d' defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js
    echo 'pref("app.update.channel", "non-existing-channel")' >> defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js
  '';

Maybe it's better to set app.update.auto to false than changing the channel to some unknown one

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This behaviour will be fixed in 18.09 and unstable as soon as the channels update. http://howoldis.herokuapp.com/

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I am on 18.09 with latest nixpkgs-mozilla and I am having this problem. Did I do something wrong?
I installed nightly by adding something like this to the configuration.nix:

let
  mozilla = import (fetchFromGitHub {
    owner  = "mozilla";
    repo   = "nixpkgs-mozilla";
    rev    = "0d64cf67dfac2ec74b2951a4ba0141bc3e5513e8";
    sha256 = "0ngj2rk898rq73rq2rkwjax9p34mjlh3arj8w9npwwd6ljncarmh";
  });
in {
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    latest.firefox-nightly-bin
  ];
}

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