294643 - FireFox Update should show old versus new version number

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement)

Description

[Rastignac]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

FireFox Update should display more information about available updates. It now
says "the following updates are available" and for each extension or theme "XXXX
version Z.Z.Z".
It should say "XXXX: version Y.Y.Y installed, version Z.Z.Z available". So you
know that you'll update XXXX from Y.Y.Y to Z.Z.Z.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

Hey Ben, what do you think of this bug?  Is it something you want to do, or
should we mark it WONTFIX?

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

sound like a good idea, properly informing the user about what he is going to
update to.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

As far as extensions go, this is already fixed for latest branch and trunk.

Another question is does it make much difference what version they are updating
to, so long as they are going to a newer version?

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

not a big enough win for this point, telling the user what they're updating to
is enough.

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This ui has been gone for quite some time though it *might* still be nice to add the current version of the application. If you still think we should do this please file a new bug based on the current ui. resolving -> wontfix since the ui asked to be changed is no longer applicable.