1426389 - Remove websense detection from the aushelper add-on

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1358342

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement, P3)

Description

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

Bug 1329692 added the current websense check to the aushelper add-on and we should be able to remove this check in the near future since the check is in previous Firefox versions.

Comment 1

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

Jim, can this check be removed at this time?

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Robert Strong [:rstrong] (use needinfo to contact me) from comment #1)
> Jim, can this check be removed at this time?

I guess it depends on the size of the population out there that has the old versions of websense installed. Since this was enterprise that process might take some time. Can we grab some stats on the number of users still getting caught up by this?

Comment 3

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

This detection only helps with updating clients and not the Firefox installation. So, unless I'm mistaken, any "users still getting caught up by this" would already be running a version of Firefox that is incompatible with websense. With the previous in mind would removing the detection be ok since the removal would be in Firefox 59?

Comment 4

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

In other words, if the client is already running Firefox 59 aren't they already using a version that has an incompatibility with websense? I would think it would be similar to how it was possible to remove the JAWS detection in bug 1413727.

Comment 5

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Discussed on IRC, we used this to hold up updates for old Firefox revs that had a startup crash when websense was running. Hence newer versions no longer need the detection string.

Comment 6

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

The entire aushelper add-on was removed in bug 1358342