Closed Bug 1716948 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

"Say hello to a new firefox" dialog missing a "not ever" option

Categories

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Messaging System
Version:
Firefox 89
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: lemuix+mozbugs, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.95 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox recently updated itself, and is forcing me to click through a dialog window to actually use the browser again.

Actual results:

I have two options:

  • "Make firefox my default browser"
  • "Not now"

Expected results:

There needs to be a third option:

  • "Not ever"

As far as I'm concerned, the browser's UI is basically done, and should never need to change (except perhaps some menus) in the future. I don't want these changes now, I don't want these changes EVER.

"Not now" implies that the browser is going to probably be regularly bothering me about this. I don't want that. I don't want to have to deal with pointless UI updates to something that is currently fine at any point in the future. The UI doesn't need updates for anything other then fixing things that are broken. Using cute language to obscure the fact that you're going to continually bother me until I accidentally click the wrong button is abusive.

This feels a lot like what windows is doing these days: "We know when you want to reboot better then you, no, you can't turn this off", etc....

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Application Update' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Application Update
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Component: Application Update → Messaging System
Product: Toolkit → Firefox

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Hi,
I think this is more an enhancement request since that options was not available in the previous versions as well (seems to be the expected behavior).
I will set this as New as an enhancement and waiting for the developers opinion.

Thanks for the report.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Type: defect → enhancement
Ever confirmed: true

If you'd like to disable the upgrade dialogs, you can navigate to about:config and change the browser.startup.upgradeDialog.enabled pref to false.
Thanks for the feedback!

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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