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::::: We turn off Firefox's auto update, because all our user accounts are Limited Windows accounts, so prompting people about an update they don't have the privilige to do anything about can only be an annoyance. I would hope this would be the recommended 'way' that we advise people set systems up at this wiki. In the ill advised situation where people are Administrators (or Power Users?) I agree your point is a good one that at least Firefox remains up-to-date to the latest 3.0.x. However I still maintain that we should have an assumption on this wiki that the admin is doing the right thing and packaging updates as and when they're released and tested. I think by now we've both explained each of our vantages pretty thoroughly :)
:: Lets say you want to let the auto update mechanism in place (because your users have sufficient rights to do it ; because you do not have the time to update the wpkg managed software in real time), but want to be sure you upgrade Firefox on every machine, especially on the computers where the users never use FF. You can use the condition "versiongreaterorequal" on the firefox.exe file to achieve this. For Firefox 3.0.6 it will be : <check type="file" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" value="1.9.0.3306"/>