499788 - Application update should apply while running/without progress meter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307181

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Updating apps on startup really sucks. If I have to wait for updates when I just want to launch my browser, I get frustrated, and sometimes I even forget that I'm trying to launch Firefox when it takes a while.

Instead of applying on startup, we should find some way of applying while the app is still running, and then doing some O(1) stuff on shutdown or startup (for example, renaming app-new.exe to app.exe).

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This simply must be a dupe.

Of course this is desired, and if it were trivial we'd have done it before. (Right now this is kind of a basic RFE, as well I'd like to see more of a set of suggestions around how we'd actually do this.)

The experience should be (I'm really, really sure I've written this before):

 - download comes in the background
 - we apply it
 - if the user hasn't restarted in 24 hours, we show a small indication asking them to do so

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

I suspect it is a dupe but I haven't checked yet.

Also, I've been considering how we could apply the update on exit but if we start using MSI's the update process will need to change significantly for Windows so I haven't been spending many cycles on update yet.