2063400 - Implement support for policy to force restart when update is ready to install

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Enterprise Products :: Firefox, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Implement an enterprise policy which allows admins to force restart Firefox when updates are applied, after a period of warning.

This was originally implement in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2022741, but QA found several issues with this implementation, notably involving unstable clocks, device sleep (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2031964) and generally how to deal with sleep/resume cycles (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2034669).

We pursue a different approach here that is Firefox Enterprise specific: we can consider the console as a stable clock and single source of truth, so the function of the client becomes only showing the UX and doing the actual restart, with none of the time keeping complications.

Comment 1

[Toby Pilling [:tobyp]]

I think this also blocks bug 2060193, right?

Comment 2

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/gcp
https://github.com/mozilla/enterprise-firefox/commit/9bfb085410fd73a635ac963422a5f5d81ed4f928
[enterprise-main] Bug 2063400 - Console-driven relaunch deadline (#1270)