310249 - Command line flag to update Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050924 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050924 Firefox/1.4

What I would like is a way to update Firefox 1.5 from the command line.  We have
a few linux boxes (200+) and we are thinking about putting an option for users
to use the Firefox Beta (if they really want to).  Then I was thinking how to
upgrade Firefox.  I really don't want to go to each computer and upgrade them,
nor do I want to download a new tarball and push that out to all the computers.
 So if there was a way that I could just ssh into the computer and run a command
line (ie. firefox -update) and it would update itself.  This could also be used
in Mac and Windows.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

I outline a method that can be used here:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Manually_Installing_a_MAR_file

I don't think there is time to add a command line flag for Firefox 1.5

Comment 2

[bugzilla]

Well, it would be nice to try and get this for 2.0 then.  As for the wiki, very
helpful.  Though it doesn't quite explain how to do more than one day.  Say I
have a build of 20050924 (my current one).  Do I need to download the mar file
for each of the days till now, or can I just download the latest mar file?

Comment 3

[alanjstr]

Differential mar files are placed in yesterday's folder.  So if you want to
upgrade from yesterday's build to today's, you have to find the previous day's
folder.  

If you're using the browser, you have to update, restart, update, restart,
update, restart, update, restart.....

Bug 284597    	
Bug 284589    	
Bug 306999

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Since the updater supports using the command line to apply updates is there any justification to adding redundant command line handling to Firefox?

I'm closing this as wontfix but if someone can provide a decent answer to this question I will consider reopening it.