1206906 - In the pop-up that notifies you of a new version of Thunderbird, the "more about this version" link erroneously links to Firefox version, not T-bird version

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[K Moser]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150826023504

Steps to reproduce:

Wait for Software Update pop-up to display.


Actual results:

Pop-up reads:

"A security and stability update for Thunderbird is available: 
Thunderbird 41.0 Beta 2

It is strongly recommended that you apply this update for Thunderbird as soon as possible.

View more information about this update."

When you click the "View more information about this update" link, it goes to the following URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/41.0beta/releasenotes/

Note that this is a URL for *Firefox*, not *Thunderbird*.


Expected results:

Presumably it should have gone to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/41.0beta/releasenotes/

Note the "thunderbird" in the URL.

Comment 1

[K Moser]

Attachment: Screen capture of pop-up window

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter, have you seen this in recent releases?

Comment 3

[K Moser]

I think the notification process has changed in the past year or so, since I don't remember having seen that automatic popup in a while now.

My recollection of how the notification process works now is that if you open the "About" window, there is always a "Release notes" link but it links to the release notes for the currently installed version, not the version that is pending installation (if any). Thunderbird just notifies you if there is an update available but doesn't give you a link to the release notes of the update (although I could be wrong here).

If Thunderbird downloads the update automatically, it gives you a notification of some sort that a restart is required to apply the update, but again according to my recollection that notification doesn't include a link to the release notes of the new version.

In any case, I don't remember noticing any problems with the "Release notes" links in a while now. So you can probably close this bug.