296789 - Stop 1.0.x users trying to install 1.0+-only addons

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

Lots of users think "1.0+" means 1.0.4 and aren't happy when extensions
compatible only with "1.0+" won't install on 1.0.4, the newest release. A note
should be added to the front page explaining that "1.0+" refers to developers'
builds of Firefox and not to 1.0.x releases.

On the plus side, the fact that "dumb users" know 1.0.4 is the latest release is
a testament to MoFo's anti-marketing of 1.1a1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Be a dumb user
2. Try to install an extension for "Firefox 1.0+ - 1.0+"
Actual Results:  
Won't install, user cries

Expected Results:  
Won't install, user doesn't cry because user knows that 1.0+ != 1.0.x.

Afterthought: an alternative solution (possibly better) would be to change the
display of "1.0+" to "1.0+ (developers' versions only)" or similar.

Comment 1

[Ben Basson]

Better (I thought was already implemented) solution - by default, hide
extensions that have a higher minVersion value than the version in the current
client's user agent.

This needs a higher priority, for the people that try to install extensions,
this is, at best, a major bug. I suggest that the priority gets bumped and this
is taken care of before Deer Park Alpha 2 if possible.

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Browser detection doesn't seem to be our forte.  Unfortunately, the GUI provides
no method to filter either.  But that's a different bug.

Reassigning to CTho to get a little traction on this.

Comment 3

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

I changed the display string to "Deer Park".  The form let me enter "Deer Park
Alpha", but the database chopped it at 9 characters, so that's the best we're
getting.  I don't want to use something like "1.5alpha" because people will
probably start thinking that's a valid maxver.

I'm not going to make code changes to UMO1.0 for this (it's a can of worms).  If
someone else wants to, feel free to reopen the bug and take ownership of it.

Comment 4

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm not going to make code changes to UMO1.0 for this (it's a can of worms).  If
> someone else wants to, feel free to reopen the bug and take ownership of it.

This still isn't fixed - see
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1042&page=comments
; so marking WONTFIX based on comment 3.