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Go to Preferences -> Settings-User and add there: “update_check”: false

Note there should be a ',' after that line UNLESS it is the final line in the block.

The Fedora 22 bug is: KDE root apps fail to render using X w/o root rights

To run Beyond Compare as root on Fedora 22 without the screen blanking, run the following commands in a terminal:

su
export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native
bcompare

Python library to implement a well-behaved Unix daemon process
How do I set up a daemon with python-daemon?

Resources on Producer/Consumer multithreading in Python

MULTITHREADING - PRODUCER AND CONSUMER WITH QUEUE

You could copy the relevant prefs.js items manually.

mail.account.*
mail.accountmanager.*
mail.identity.*
mail.server.*
mail.smtpserver.*
mail.smtpservers
For example:

egrep 'user_pref\("mail\.(account(manager)?|identity|(smtp)?servers?)[."]' \
< old-profile/prefs.js >> new-profile/prefs.js