1334804 - Repeating update notice windows Firefox 51

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Ben]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20170118123726

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 51.0 (Win 32) installed.  Update Option set to "Check for updates but let me chose...".  





Actual results:

When v51.0.1 was released, the update notice windows keep accumulating on the task bar.  After a working in other apps and being away from the computer for a few hrs, about 15 Fx update notice popups accumulated in the taskbar.

Fx 51.0 is the first version I've seen this, but saw the same issue in other non-Mozilla apps - which was determined a bug & fixed.

If other app icons are in the taskbar, the notices are all grouped under the main Fx taskbar icon.  

There was no way to select all notices or close them all at once.  Each notice had to be closed separately.  The entire group, including Firefox could have been closed at once. 


Expected results:

Past behavior:  Firefox or Thunderbird Update popups only opened a single window.  If it was minimized, it remained in Windows' taskbar until closed.
No additional update notice popups appeared if one was still open - in Windows' taskbar.

Comment 1

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

This UI is no longer used for notification in Firefox and the new UI doesn't suffer from this bug.