feat: add update check disabling

(cherry picked from commit d97ab048aaea261d6f78640b62290a53815042f5)

browser/components/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs

@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ BrowserGlue.prototype = {
     // check for update if our build is old
     if (
       AppConstants.MOZ_UPDATER &&
+      Services.prefs.getBoolPref("app.update.enabled") &&
       Services.prefs.getBoolPref("app.update.checkInstallTime")
     ) {
       let buildID = Services.appinfo.appBuildID;

browser/components/preferences/main.inc.xhtml

@@ -690,6 +690,9 @@
       <radio id="manualDesktop"
              value="false"
              data-l10n-id="update-application-check-choose"/>
+      <radio id="disabledDesktop"
+             value="disabled"
+             data-l10n-id="update-application-manual"/>
     </radiogroup>
     <hbox id="updateSettingCrossUserWarningDesc" hidden="true">
       <hbox class="info-icon-container">

browser/components/preferences/main.js

@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ const ICON_URL_APP =
 // was set by us to a custom handler icon and CSS should not try to override it.
 const APP_ICON_ATTR_NAME = "appHandlerIcon";
 
+// WATERFOX
+const PREF_UPDATE_ENABLED = "app.update.enabled";
+
 Preferences.addAll([
   // Startup
   { id: "browser.startup.page", type: "int" },
@@ -183,6 +186,11 @@ Preferences.addAll([
 
   // Media
   { id: "media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled", type: "bool" },
+
+  // WATERFOX
+  // Enable auto update checking
+  { id: "app.update.enabled", type: "bool" },
+
 ]);
 
 if (AppConstants.HAVE_SHELL_SERVICE) {
@@ -884,6 +892,8 @@ var gMainPane = {
         // Start with no option selected since we are still reading the value
         document.getElementById("autoDesktop").removeAttribute("selected");
         document.getElementById("manualDesktop").removeAttribute("selected");
+        // WATERFOX
+        document.getElementById("disabledDesktop").removeAttribute("selected");
         // Start reading the correct value from the disk
         this.readUpdateAutoPref();
         setEventListener("updateRadioGroup", "command", event => {
@@ -2621,7 +2631,10 @@ var gMainPane = {
 
       radiogroup.disabled = true;
       let enabled = await UpdateUtils.getAppUpdateAutoEnabled();
-      radiogroup.value = enabled;
+      // WATERFOX
+      // If user sets app.update.enabled to false, set value to disabled, else use enabled
+      let manualUpdates = Services.prefs.getBoolPref(PREF_UPDATE_ENABLED, true);
+      radiogroup.value = !manualUpdates ? "disabled" : enabled;
       radiogroup.disabled = false;
 
       this.maybeDisableBackgroundUpdateControls();
@@ -2646,6 +2659,12 @@ var gMainPane = {
       try {
         await UpdateUtils.setAppUpdateAutoEnabled(updateAutoValue);
         await _disableTimeOverPromise;
+        // WATERFOX
+        // Ensure enabled pref is updated based on radiogroup value
+        Services.prefs.setBoolPref(
+          PREF_UPDATE_ENABLED,
+          radiogroup.value != "disabled"
+        );
         radiogroup.disabled = false;
       } catch (error) {
         console.error(error);
@@ -2860,7 +2879,17 @@ var gMainPane = {
       if (aData != "true" && aData != "false") {
         throw new Error("Invalid preference value for app.update.auto");
       }
-      document.getElementById("updateRadioGroup").value = aData;
+      // WATERFOX
+      // Going from Auto to Disable needs to be correctly reflected here
+      // At this point app.update.enabled has not yet been set, so we
+      // want to set disabled if it is going from true->false and is
+      // currently true
+      let manualUpdates = Services.prefs.getBoolPref(
+        "app.update.enabled",
+        true
+      );
+      document.getElementById("updateRadioGroup").value =
+        manualUpdates && !(aData === "true") ? "disabled" : aData;
       this.maybeDisableBackgroundUpdateControls();
     } else if (aTopic == BACKGROUND_UPDATE_CHANGED_TOPIC) {
       if (!AppConstants.MOZ_UPDATE_AGENT) {

toolkit/mozapps/update/AppUpdater.sys.mjs

@@ -254,6 +254,11 @@ export class AppUpdater {
         return;
       }
 
+      if (this.#updateDisabledByPref) {
+        this.#setStatus(AppUpdater.STATUS.NEVER_CHECKED);
+        return;
+      }
+
       if (this.aus.disabled) {
         LOG("AppUpdater:check - AUS disabled");
         this.#setStatus(AppUpdater.STATUS.UPDATE_DISABLED_BY_POLICY);
@@ -412,6 +417,10 @@ export class AppUpdater {
     return Services.sysinfo.getProperty("isPackagedApp");
   }
 
+  get #updateDisabledByPref() {
+    return !Services.prefs.getBoolPref("app.update.enabled", true);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Downloads an update mar or connects to an in-progress download.
    * Doesn't resolve until the update is ready to install, or a failure state

toolkit/mozapps/update/UpdateService.sys.mjs

@@ -3898,6 +3898,15 @@ export class UpdateService {
    * See nsIUpdateService.idl
    */
   get canUsuallyCheckForUpdates() {
+    let prefEnabled = Services.prefs.getBoolPref("app.update.enabled", true);
+    if (!prefEnabled) {
+      LOG(
+        "UpdateService.canUsuallyCheckForUpdates - unable to automatically check " +
+          "the preference is disabled."
+      );
+      return false;
+    }
+
     if (this.disabled) {
       LOG(
         "UpdateService.canUsuallyCheckForUpdates - unable to automatically check " +

waterfox/browser/app/profile/000-waterfox.js

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 pref("accessibility.support.url", "https://www.waterfox.net/support/accessibility-services")
 pref("app.support.baseURL", "https://www.waterfox.net/support/%OS%/");
 pref("app.update.badgeWaitTime", 0);
+pref("app.update.enabled", true);
 pref("app.update.notifyDuringDownload", true);
 pref("app.update.promptWaitTime", 3600);
 pref("app.update.url.override", "", sticky);