295081 - In the Update prefs, with Themes and Extensions disabled, updater displays 'new' extensions anyway

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[brian stegner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Preferences/Advanced... with only "Firefox" checked (enabled), the browser comes
back with 'results' for updates to themes and extensions, but while running
1.0.3, it fails to return any indication that there is a 1.0.4 update available.
This is reproducible with changes in prefs saved, and app re-launched. No effect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Firefox/Preferences/Advanced
2.De-select "Themes & Extensions"
3.Select "Check Now"

Actual Results:  
I got a window that informs that an update exists for "Tabbed browsing
preferences", (which, upon download, hung the app, also"

Expected Results:  
Should have checked for application update, only, as was selected in prefs, and,
should have returned info to the effect that an update to 1.0.4 was aailable.

Comment 1

[Paul Walker]

I'm seeing this behaviour with 1.0.4 as well. (The part where it checks for
extension updates when told not to, at least.)

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

Comment 2

[Anton P.]

Indeed, I too can confirm this for Firefox 1.0.4, this time on Windows 98 and
Windows ME:

Unchecking "Periodically check for updates to...My extensions and themes" seems
to have no effect; installed extensions and themes are still checked for updates
when the "Check Now" button is pressed.

I have not tested whether the same issue occurs when Firefox automatically does
its check, as opposed to when the "Check Now" button is used.

Comment 3

[brian stegner]

I went into Preferences on Firefox 1.0.4 (Macintosh).

Under the "Advanced" tab, the 'Software Update' item had "Firefox" enabled, and
'My Extensions and Themes', disabled. (same setting i've had there for months)

I hit "Check Now".

The dialog that popped up said, "There are new updates to several of your
Extensions"... "Install now?"

I installed them (laugh), BUT, technically, either the Firefox-update-only
mechanism is broken, or the presence of differentiated 'choices' is superfluous.

It's a confirmed 'bug'. I was the original reporter on this one, wondering if
someone will actually take the bug and have a look... i have no 'permission
bits' on my account..

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 309211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

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

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