Closed Bug 1598866 Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Make Thunderbird Automatically Update to 64 Bit When Possible

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Windows
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1556748

People

(Reporter: worcester12345, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

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Actual results:

Updates to most recent version in (32-bit).

Expected results:

Updates to most recent version in (64-bit).

OS: Unspecified → Windows
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
Depends on: 1556748
See Also: → 1393447, support-win64-thunderbird
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → General
Ever confirmed: true
Blocks: track-lightning-7.0
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
No longer depends on: 1556748
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

How can this be a "duplicate" of 1556748? I created it SPECIFICALLY to distinguish and differentiate it from that one.

See:
(In reply to Sören Hentzschel from comment #43)

    It needs to be automatic

Nope, definitively not. Not even Firefox does automatic migrations from 32 bit to 64 bit. Firefox did this one time, but it was an one-time event. Why should this be a requirement for Thunderbird? Nothing, really nothing in the word "available" contains something about automatic migration, it means only what it says: available. I don't say that Thunderbird shouldn't do something similar but it's not a blocker for saying that 64 bit builds are available and call this meta bug fixed. This is bug 1556748.

OK, to clarify, I created a new bug 1598866

Did not mention "when possible". Isn't this now fully possible? I don't see any logical reason for stopping this from happening.

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