I hope that means that they can and will put more power into Firefox development - to concentrate on their main thing.

Interesting. On which distro? I don’t have this problem on Fedora. Here the update check is disabled by default.

Autotype for password managers. I don’t only have passwords which I use in my browser for which the plugin is fine. But other apps require autotype. And copy & paste can’t be the solution for this missing feature.