290839 - Critical Updates Fail - Error Message delivery formatted so can't be read

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[doug almquist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

In attempting to install a critical update, an error occurred.
The error message delivery system is poory written so any message long enough to
describe the problem scrolls off the viewing pane to the right side in stead of
using more than one line of text. 

My error message reads: "Firefox 1.0.3 (en-US) Software Update (Not a valid i..."

This is a very basic coding error that makes this important reporting feature
nearly useless.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Fun Firefox
2.Wait for update engine to run
3.

Actual Results:  
The Firefox Update program runs and errors out.

Expected Results:  
In the event of an error, the error report should describe the problem in a sway
that a technical  user can understand what has failed and can then communicate
this to the programming team at Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Closing out bugs in the old style updater, which are superseded by the new system
in 1.5.