309677 - Too buggy updates

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Iavor Raytchev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050916 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050916 Firefox/1.6a1

The new automatic updates are great, but on several occasions they download
almost completely unusable browser. A couple of weeks ago the frames rendering
was completely broken, and now (with the today's update) the tabs can not be
closed, and CPU goes to 100% after few minutes of work.

It would be good if at least some most basic tests are done before automatic
updates are pushed out - otherwise the testng turns out to be quite unpleasant task.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

You're using a nightly build on the trunk. These builds are intended for testing
purposes only and carry no end-user support. They're also built from the latest
CVS snapshot and pushed out to the update system automatically.  

If you find the trunk nightlies to be too unstable, switch to the branch -
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8 (also
intend for testing only) or the latest milestone release -
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #0)
> It would be good if at least some most basic tests are done before automatic
> updates are pushed out - otherwise the testng turns out to be quite unpleasant
task.

That's exactly what the nightly builds are for - for testing.

Comment 3

[Iavor Raytchev]

I think somehow what I wrote was not read. I think it's quite simple to test 
few simple things before sending out. Otherwise the the time of all testers is 
wasted, because someone did not spent 15 min to click the browser around.

That's all what I meant.