663783 - Old nightly build does not upgrade to latest build through about dialog

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[George Carstoiu]

Attachment: Screenshot 2

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110521 Firefox/6.0a1

Trying to upgrade Nightly to latest trunk through the about dialog fails, informing the user that "Nightly is up to date", although it is not - see Screenshot 1 (taken on the 13th of June)

Reproducible: always

Steps to reproduce:
 1. Download and install an older Nightly build
 2. Start Nightly
 3. Go to Help-> About Nightly

Actual results:
 - the user is informed that the "Nightly is up to date"

Expected results:
 - the newer build starts to download and the user is given the opportunity to update its browser

Note:
 - reproduced issue on Ubuntu 11.04 x86, Win7 x86 and Mac OS X 10.6
 - while trying to reproduce issue got error from Screenshot 2 - not sure if it's related or not

Comment 1

[George Carstoiu]

Attachment: Screenshot 1

Comment 2

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

WFM from Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110513 Firefox/6.0a1 ID:20110513030218 offered update to latest nightly.

Comment 3

[George Carstoiu]

 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110703 Firefox/6.0a2

It looks like it was a local thing. Closing issue as Resolved Invalid.