1876829 - Official .deb package displays a broken update button in about pop-in

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Distributions, defect, P3)

Description

[Pierre Rudloff]

I am using version 122.0 of the official .deb package from https://packages.mozilla.org/apt on Ubuntu 23.10.
The about pop-in displays a "check for updates" button that does nothing.
I see this error in the browser console when I click it:

Uncaught ReferenceError: gAppUpdater is not defined
    oncommand chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xhtml:1
aboutDialog.xhtml:1:1

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Moving across to Distributions, though I'm not sure if that is the right place for it.

My suspicions would be that the MOZ_UPDATER flag is set incorrectly on the .deb packages.

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Weird. We did this all in code using the same paths as the MSIX. Not sure what happened here...

Any ideas Johan?

Comment 3

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

I agree. We made these changes in bug 1799503. What's your opinion on this, :gabriel?

Comment 4

[Gabriel Bustamante [:gabriel]]

Mm could it be this MOZ_UPDATER global is 1 because the Linux build does have the updater?

iirc we wanted to avoid a new build with isPackagedApp. Maybe the MSIX is built without the updater?

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Everything is supposed to be dynamic now, we don't rely on MOZ_UPDATER anymore I Thought.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:mkaply, could you have a look please?

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