1956903 - new tabs crashing when running outdated binaries with background updates

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement)

Description

[Renner]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Steps to reproduce:

Mozilla Firefox 136.0.4 Flatpak from Flathub
Bazzite (Fedora Atomic based)
Flatpak 1.16.0

1. open Firefox
2. update with flatpak update (updates are automated)
3. new firefox release gets pulled in

Actual results:

all (new) tabs are crashing when the update is done

Expected results:

A warning message pops up that informs the user of running an outdated firefox version compared to what's installed (running outdated binaries)

Comment 1

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

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