306926 - Software Update is unable to display the "view more info" link for the update.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 305226

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050901 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050901 Firefox/1.0+

Clicked on Help -> Check For Updates. Got the "a new version of Deer Park is
available" window, with a link for "View more information about this update."

Clicking on that link just opens a new browser window with no page loaded. In
the JS Console, I always get the following when doing this:

Error: [Exception... "'Failure' when calling method:
[nsIWritablePropertyBag::getProperty]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://mozapps/content/update/updates.js :: anonymous :: line 612"  data: no]
Source File: chrome://mozapps/content/update/updates.js
Line: 612





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Help -> Check for Updates
2. Click on the "View more information" link
3. Get a blank window.



Expected Results:  
A window with information. Or if there actually isn't any info available, there
(A) should be or (B) the link should be there.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Sorry, forgot one other tidbit. A bugzilla search turns up bug 306170, in which
comment 4 has the same error. That bug has to do with background downloads, so I
filed this one instead. Might be the same root cause, or just a common error point.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

note that you can't load the page anyway due to bug 305226

Comment 3

[Travis Chase]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305226 ***