Closed Bug 269483 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

software update does not work

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED
Thunderbird1.1

People

(Reporter: salspam, Assigned: mscott)

Details

Attachments

(10 files, 2 obsolete files)

23.51 KB, patch
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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Software update on thunderbird 0.8 complains "no updates for thunderbird"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Options 
2. Advanced
3. Software update
4. Check Now

Actual Results:  
"Thunderbird was not able to find any updates"

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird finds new version 0.9.

Thunderbird version 0.8
confirming, I also see this on Linux (fc2) and Mac OS X 10.3.6. marcia has been
seeing this in the fora.

see also bug 254462. is it that software update isn't really implemented for
tbird yet?

will also check on WinXP...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird1.0
No we disabled software update for thundebird so you wouldn't have to spend time
QA'ing it.
ah okay. (fwiw, this didn't work on winXP.)

I'll move this to tbird1.1, but of course do change that if there's a more
appropriate milestone.
Target Milestone: Thunderbird1.0 → Thunderbird1.1
Btw, same bug is in firefox 0.9.3. I'm just wondering, why there is such a
feature in preferences, if it's disabled? It may cause some people to think that
they are using the newest version of program.
forum thread for this bug: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=161832
Target Milestone: Thunderbird1.1 → Thunderbird1.0
marcia already filed a bug to hide the pref ui. we don't need this in the 1.0
bucket then.
Target Milestone: Thunderbird1.0 → Thunderbird1.1
xref bug 270485 for the UI removal.
Scott, are we going to try to get update for 1.1?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.1?
clearing nomination for a bug that's already in the 1.1 bucket
Flags: blocking-aviary1.1?
Ports the new UI Firefox has for updates to Thunderbird.

1) Adds a menu item under Help for "Check for Updates"
2) Adds new settings to the update options UI for auto install, and ask before
installing updates.

This patch adds some access key conflicts to the advanced options dialog which
I have not been able to solve yet.
Attached patch add an update toolbar item (obsolete) — Splinter Review
More work to add a toolbar item in the menu bar for showing update indicators.
Also hooked up some theme changes for qute in toolkit\mozapps\update
Attachment #185707 - Attachment is obsolete: true
This patch adds all of the Thunderbird front end work for the new update
service. Once the udpate service comes online, it will start updating the
update toolbar button in th e menu bar.
Attachment #185737 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #185877 - Attachment description: updated patch → [patch checked in]updated patch
This hooks up the item under the Help Menu so we change from Check For Updates
to Downloading Updates along with a throbber icon in the menu when we are in
the process of downloading an update.

Porting recent firefox update changes.
Attachment #186858 - Attachment description: another patch → [patch checked in] Update menu item should reflect state
Attachment #187422 - Attachment description: even more changes → [patch checked in]even more changes
Attachment #187705 - Attachment description: prefs facelift, move update panel from browser to toolkit where it can be shared → [patch checked in]prefs facelift, move update panel from browser to toolkit where it can be shared
Attachment #187706 - Attachment description: firefox changes to move update.js/.xul/.dtd to toolkit → [patch checked in]firefox changes to move update.js/.xul/.dtd to toolkit
Time to mark this bug as fixed. We've been successfully testing this on all
three platforms against our test update server and so far manual and background
updates are now working.

This should be live on a production server for the beta. 
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
some clean up work for auto update
This change makes the animated throbber show up in the "Help / Downloading
Updates For..." menu item when downloading an update.
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