[meta] Background Update Agent tracking bug
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(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement, P2)
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relnote-firefox | --- | 90+ |
People
(Reporter: molly, Unassigned)
References
(Depends on 10 open bugs, )
Details
(Keywords: meta, Whiteboard: [iu_tracking])
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(1 obsolete file)
The Update Agent is being planned as a background process which will remain running after the browser is closed to download and apply updates. This should make updating more convenient for everyone and reduce the time to get new updates for users who aren't well supported by the current update process because they don't run Firefox very much and/or they have slow Internet connections. This is a large project with a bunch of sub-tasks, so it needs a tracking bug.
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Just wondering, is this generally windows-only, or planned to role out for other platforms later?
Comment 2•6 years ago
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We are currently working on this feature for Windows only. There has been some interest in having a Background Update Agent for MacOS as well, but we don't have any immediate plans to implement it. It does not sound like we will be rolling this out to Linux, however.
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(In reply to Kirk Steuber (he/him) [:bytesized] from comment #2)
We are currently working on this feature for Windows only. There has been
some interest in having a Background Update Agent for MacOS as well, but we
don't have any immediate plans to implement it. It does not sound like we
will be rolling this out to Linux, however.
Thank You This Will Protect User in an Online World!
Will this feature be optional like the current Mozilla Maintenance Service is? I really appreciate how easy it is to not install that when it is undesired. :)
Comment 6•5 years ago
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Doug- It will be a little different from the Maintenance Service, but you will be able to turn it off. There will be a setting to turn it off in Firefox's existing options menu (about:preferences).
Evem After added this function, not work i also check windows BITS Enabled!
Comment 9•5 years ago
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Javad- The update agent does not work because we have not yet finished implementing it.
Comment 10•5 years ago
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(In reply to Kirk Steuber (he/him) [:bytesized] from comment #9)
Javad- The update agent does not work because we have not yet finished implementing it.
Why you not implementing in other services like firefox own update services instead using BITS Service?
Also please add this option to firedoz esr.
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Comment 12•4 years ago
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Just including a note to myself: the BUA needs to have the hardening of Firefox/the installer/etc, including fixes like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361326.
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Comment 13•3 years ago
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Is this something we want to call out in the 90 release notes? If yes please set the relnote-firefox
flag to ?
when you get a chance, with suggested text if possible.
Comment 14•3 years ago
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I've started driving this project so that Nick can work on some other stuff. I'm actually not 100% sure about the answer to this. The feature is going to start being enabled on 90, but we are rolling it out slowly through Normandy. And the release schedule is slow enough, that it will not be enabled for most users during 90. If you know how the release notes usually handle slow rollouts, let me know. Otherwise, I'll talk to some people to figure out what the right thing to do here is.
I'm going to leave needinfo on myself until I answer this question.
Comment 15•3 years ago
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I believe that we would like this to be called out in the 90 release notes. I was hoping to be able to link to a SUMO article about the feature in the notes, but I'm currently unsure of whether the SUMO article will be ready in time. Could you tell me what the timeline/deadline for this is, so that I can figure out whether I should just write a version without a link, or wait for the article to be ready?
Comment 16•3 years ago
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Oh, I think that :jcristau is out.
@RyanVM - Can you help me answer my question from Comment 15?
Comment 18•3 years ago
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I'd vote for having a note ready by the end of the week whether the SUMO article is ready or not. We can always update it later when the article is ready.
Comment 19•3 years ago
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I'm pretty sure that the article is not going to be done by the end of the week. So I'll provide a release note now, to hopefully be updated later.
Release Note Request
[Why is this notable]:
Until now, Firefox has only downloaded and installed updates when the user runs it. This means that users that use Firefox infrequently are often out-of-date. It also means that if they open Firefox again in response to a marketing campaign, they may not immediately get the features advertised. Background Update aims to address this problem by allowing updates to be downloaded and installed, even when the user doesn't run Firefox.
[Affects Firefox for Android]:
This does not affect Firefox for Android because it uses a completely different update mechanism.
[Suggested wording]:
Background Update is now available on Windows. This feature will allow Firefox to update, even if it is not running. It will be slowly rolled out to all Windows users over the next few months.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:
We currently do not have documentation or a blog post on this exact feature. A SUMO article is in the works, but is not yet ready. The closest thing is the documentation for Background Tasks, which are the underlying mechanism behind Background Update.
Comment 20•3 years ago
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I initially wrote "On Windows, updates can now be applied in the background while Firefox is not running, ensuring it’s kept up-to-date and secure", now updated to your version in the 90.0beta notes. Thanks!
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