307077 - Automatic update is not 'automatic' even when checked.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Hari Kumar G]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050901
Firefox/1.6a1

Set the preference 'Automatically check for Updates' to checked and select
automatic download and installation of software and extensions.  Now even if the
update is minor, it should downloaded and installed. After finishing, the
message should be extended that the update will be applied when you restart
Firefox.  Presently, this is not done 'automatically'.  If user selects the
'Check for update' from the Help menu, the update is downloaded and installed
smoothly.

Comment 1

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Hari:

The auto-update feature runs about once each day, so I'm betting that you just 
need to wait longer before an update will occur. It's possible that there may 
not be any available updates for your version of Firefox. You're using a trunk 
build, and that will only receive auto update notification when a new release 
version is available. Check mozillazine for help if you want to update on the 
nightly channel or if you would like to change the interval between autoupdate 
checks.

Comment 2

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

resolving, reopen if you can provide any more specific information. see bug 
309784 for more info on the time between auto update checks.