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In other words: Firefox will use a scheduled task on the system level to run update checks, download updates and install the downloaded updates. If you need to disable this functionality, about:preferences should show a checkbox in the “Updates” section for you to disable, or you can set the BackgroundAppUpdate Firefox policy to false.ps forum. These tasks have been designed to not process updates when other Firefox instances are running, so they should not force restarts of running instances and they access (lock) the default profile for only a very short period of time so they should not prevent starting Firefox for regular browsing. These tasks invoke Firefox in a stripped-down headless “background task mode” that pumps the update cycle before exiting.

The default Firefox profile (for each OS-level user) will schedule OS-level tasks that run periodically.