Add a "Disable autoupdate" feature (disable updates)

[jstnbr]

I noticed this old thread and see a lot of conflicting views. I'm very happy with the solution mentioned here adding a flag. I don't see the flag setting. Where is it?

I am running v1.57.57 on macOS Catalina.

         We know that there are a bunch of ways to disable auto-updates, (including https://www.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-updates ), but they're varying degrees of convoluted. So to make things neater, we're going to implement a flag allowing auto-updates to be disabled manually. I still want to emphasize that this is a dangerous flag to set, but we appreciate needs like @360fun's to avoid auto-updates on limited connections.

Originally posted by @tildelowengrimm in #5576 (comment)

[vazh2100]

Yes. Where is the feature of disabling auto update?
I don't like auto updates. These disturb me, when I launch browser and click on address line and start typing. That interrupt my input.

[bsclifton]

Thanks for the feedback folks - I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #5576

We still need to figure out the proper solution there. It's an older issue with a few proposed solutions. As of this writing, the recommended way to disable auto-updates is using a work-around described here:
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6350036?hl=en#zippy=%2Cturn-off-chrome-browser-updates

Maybe I can work with support to get a Brave version of this article created (or we can update the existing group policy page, at https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039248271-Group-Policy). We don't have templates for this yet - that's captured with #26503. So a person would need to create a registry key manually to disable updates.

[vazh2100]

Thanks for the feedback folks - I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #5576

We still need to figure out the proper solution there. It's an older issue with a few proposed solutions. As of this writing, the recommended way to disable auto-updates is using a work-around described here: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6350036?hl=en#zippy=%2Cturn-off-chrome-browser-updates

Maybe I can work with support to get a Brave version of this article created (or we can update the existing group policy page, at https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039248271-Group-Policy). We don't have templates for this yet - that's captured with #26503. So a person would need to create a registry key manually to disable updates.

I am a linux user. Your recommendations not applicable for me.

[bsclifton]

@vazh2100 Linux and macOS can use group policy also (Linux by creating a file). I'll put together some working examples tomorrow for each OS. For an example of what that would look like, check out #25394 (comment)

But you're right - if you use a package manager, you would need to avoid updating Brave yourself

[vazh2100]

@vazh2100 Linux and macOS can use group policy also (Linux by creating a file). I'll put together some working examples tomorrow for each OS. For an example of what that would look like, check out #25394 (comment)

But you're right - if you use a package manager, you would need to avoid updating Brave yourself

Thank you. It would be great.