1273707 - system add-ons should revert to built-in add-ons on beta updates

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Normally system add-ons revert to the built-in set when Firefox is upgraded, discarding any out-of-band updates installed to the profile.

However, this is not happening when a Beta update is applied (e.g. 46.0b1 -> 46.0b2).

Comment 1

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Presumably this is the same behavior for Aurora and Nightly then - we don't publish updates to these channels from Balrog though, so these channels should be using the built-in set, which is why we haven't noticed it.

Maybe the build ID would be a better thing to look for rather than the version number?

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

(In reply to Robert Helmer [:rhelmer] from comment #1)
> Presumably this is the same behavior for Aurora and Nightly then - we don't
> publish updates to these channels from Balrog though, so these channels
> should be using the built-in set, which is why we haven't noticed it.
> 
> Maybe the build ID would be a better thing to look for rather than the
> version number?

IIRC, the way Gecko updates determine "newer" is by looking at both (if version is higher, the update is newer, if version is equal and buildid is higher, the update is newer). It seems reasonable at face value to do so here, too.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

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