310228 - Need auto-update function for Thunderbird like the one in Firefox.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 290390

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[John David Galt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716)

The menu item Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Software Update contains only a
button to check for updates to extensions and themes -- not one to update
Thunderbird itself.  (Compare the same menu item in Firefox, which does allow both.)

The knowledge base (at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update , referenced
from http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs ) says this button exists, but
it doesn't.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
I had to uninstall and reinstall Thunderbird.


I have Enigmail 0.90.0 installed, if that makes any difference.

Comment 1

[u63580]

In the latest builds, this has been altered in both FF and TB.  Update is now on
Help -> Check for updates in both.  Not sure of the bugs that this was done
under - sorry.  Guess it should be duped.

Comment 2

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

The update feature in Firefox has been implemented in Thunderbird as well.
You can see the feature in the latest beta/nightly releases.

1.5 Beta: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5b1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290390 ***