288207 - it should be possible to choose language localization when upgrading Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement)

Description

[Felipe Corrêa da Silva Sanches]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: 

There should be a way of selecting to which language you want to upgrade (the
same you are already using on your old version of Firefox or any other language
from a list).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Example:
1.have a Firefox 1.0 (en-US) instaled
2.click on upgrade 'red arrow' icon to upgrade to 1.0.2
3.its not possible to change Firefox localization when upgrading



Expected Results:  
Enhancement:
There should be the choice of language so that it would be possible (for
example) to have a Firefox en-US and get Firefox 1.0.2 pt-BR through update
mechanism(without having to downloading the whole pt-BR package).

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

I think this adds too much complexity to the testing Matrix.  If you want a
different locale, then I think it's reasonable for the user to download a fresh
build.  At any rate, I think implementing this would impact so few users, that
it isn't worth the development time.  Marking WONTFIX.