152128 - Start page recommends upgrade to ALPHA release??

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Peery]

I am still at version 0.9.9 on my Windows 2000 laptop, and the start page says I
should upgrade for security reasons.  This is good, and I am glad to see the note.

I question the suggested upgrade version however.  The page says " Warning! Your
copy of Mozilla is vulnerable to a  security bug. You should upgrade to Mozilla
1.1 Alpha to fix this problem."  Should we really be suggesting an alpha
version?  I think (without having detailed feel for the true stability of the
releases) that we should suggestion the 1.0 version, with (at most) an option to
1.1 alpha "for the adventurous".

Comment 1

[Joonas]

Well, since 1.1 beta is out, maybe the links should be updated to point to a
BETA release instead :)

Mozilla 1.0 and friends are old news (branched in April) and are pretty
uninteresting. Trunk testers are more valuable than branch testers, so that's
why the page is not pointing to 1.0. Also, alpha and beta don't mean that the
builds are unusably unstable. They're probably more stable than 1.0 branch
builds, at least the latter one.

But this is of course IMHO, YMMV etc.

Comment 2

[Joonas]

Attachment: make the page point to 1.1b

This patch makes the page point to 1.1 beta instead. I didn't test this but it
should work. Pretty trivial stuff.

Comment 3

[benc]

I think this was fixed, or it's a dupe of bug 160127, which seems to be a moving
target.

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

making it current is bug 160127, but this issue isn't the same. the reporter
asks that the script recommends the latest stable milestone to people using
0.9.9, rather than the latest milestone, if it's an alpha or a beta.

i'm not sure it's worth fixing - 0.9.9 is ancient history by this point...

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170663 ***

Comment 6

[Michael Lefevre]

reopening - not the same issue. 170663 is the same issue as 160127, mentioned in
previous comment.  this bug is suggesting that the security bug bit of the
script suggests an upgrade to the latest stable, rather than the latest
milestone. this could be a WONTFIX, but it's not a dupe of that...

Comment 7

[Bill Mason]

Fixed by the new code in bug 209537.  If your build is >2 weeks, the text will
suggest getting the newest milestone if there is a new one, or a new nightly
build (with appropriate warnings about using nightlies).