287518 - Unable to find an update. When updates are due.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[nicholas fellows]

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

Read a thread on the Slashdot website, noting that an update has been released.
Noted that a user had been unable to use firefox' update tool.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=143533&threshold=0&commentsort=1&tid=154&mode=nested&cid=12033340

I tried to update and also encountered the problem.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load Firefox
2. go to edit -> prefs -> advanced -> check for updates
3. "Firefox was unable to find any updates"

Actual Results:  
I received a dialog noting that firefox was unable to find any updates.

Expected Results:  
Since a new update has been released I expected firefox to find the update and
allow me to install it.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Works for me
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223
Firefox/1.0.1

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Worksforme, 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; nl-NL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226
Firefox/1.0.1

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

We're not currently serving updates to Linux or Mac. You'll have to upgrade
manually by visiting the website and downloading the latest version.