1756686 - About dialog shows too much information with distribution.ini

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

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I'm surprised no one caught this.

With a distribution.ini and disabled updates, the about dialog should not display:

Updates are disabled by your system administrator

or

You are on the beta update channel.

It's just confusing. I'll upload a Firefox dialog from it's Snap package for comparison.

Comment 1

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

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Comment 2

[Óvári]

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Linux Mint signs a partnership with Mozilla
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

Updating to Firefox 96
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

Can Linux Mint please sign a partnership with Thunderbird? Or has that already happened as Thunderbird is related to Mozilla.

It would be great if Linux Mint could have the latest deb ESR release (and updates) instead of needing Flathub for the ESR latest release.

Thank you

Comment 3

[Óvári]

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Thunderbird Flathub
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.Thunderbird

Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon
https://linuxmint.com/

Comment 4

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Attachment: Bug 1756686 - Port bug 1632058: Always use default prefs to query distribution values. r=mkmelin

Comment 5

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Attachment: Bug 1756686 - Do not display update information when disabled by a distributor. r=mkmelin

Depends on D139893

Comment 6

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

This is

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/f3413c28da64
Port bug 1632058: Always use default prefs to query distribution values. r=mkmelin
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/cb4f43faa457
Do not display update information when disabled by a distributor. r=mkmelin