Disable error message from attempting to check geckodriver for updates

So I sometimes run selenium without being connected to the internet, and whenever I do that it spits out this error message:

Exception managing firefox: error sending request for url (https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest): error trying to connect: dns error: No such host is known. (os error 11001)

Now of course I could wrap it in a try-catch-statement, but is there a proper way to prevent displaying this message (or disable the update check)? The code still works properly, I just don't wanna see the message, or even control the update check.