Closed Bug 1433574 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Remove the addon update check at startup

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

Tracking

()

VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla61
Tracking Status
firefox61 --- verified

People

(Reporter: andy+bugzilla, Assigned: aswan)

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For Firefox 57 we streamlined the addon update check at start up in bug 1353194. We did this because we felt that there would be a lot of extensions that might not update to the last minute, or they would set there extensions to only update when 57 had gone out.

We don't want to keep this around forever as compatability checks are pretty much useless and restartless add-ons are no more.

The suggestion was to keep this until after the next ESR. Users who move up to the next ESR (currently 60) will get the benefit of this dialog.

So let's aim to remove this in Firefox 61.
a? kev
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Priority: -- → P3
a=kev \o/
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Attachment #8970364 - Flags: review?(kmaglione+bmo)
Comment on attachment 8970364 [details]
Bug 1433574 Remove startup addon update check

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/239152/#review244820

\o/
Attachment #8970364 - Flags: review?(kmaglione+bmo) → review+
Pushed by aswan@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cf1022433399
Remove startup addon update check r=kmag
(In reply to Andreea Pavel [:apavel] from comment #6)
> Backed out for causing linux build bustages
> 
> Push that started the failures:
> https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/
> jobs?repo=autoland&revision=cf1022433399232d089891e4979fced0289b0e7c
> 
> Failure log:
> https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.
> html#?job_id=175227975&repo=autoland&lineNumber=29984
> 
> Backout:
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/
> 60cf97933726a504197477aab9f8092cf9fd97b5

The same failures occurred on windows too https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=175227941&repo=autoland&lineNumber=34880
Pushed by aswan@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b3ef06fe604d
Remove startup addon update check r=kmag
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/483a0ccebc28
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla61
Flags: needinfo?(aswan)
Verified as fixed and no update checks are made at start-up.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Please note that this patch removed the extensions.showMismatchUI
from testing/geckodriver/src/prefs.rs without approval from a module
peer.  geckodriver is used out-of-tree against all release channels,
and removing before the minimum supported Firefox release is 61
will cause backwards compatibility problems.

I’m going to revert the change to this file specifically as part
of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441204.
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