334041 - Auto update ignoring user preferences

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319198

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Ian Moody [:Kwan] (UTC+1)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

I have my settings to be notified of Firefox update but both times now (1.5 > 1.5.0.1 and 1.5.0.1 > 1.5.0.2) it has auto-updated with me having no control over it.  The first time I was in the middle of browsing and suddenly a box popped up saying it was updating, and the second time I go to start Firefox and it instead updates.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 1.5 or 1.5.0.1
2. Go to Options > Advanced > Update and set "When updates to Firefox are found:" to "Ask me what I want to do"
3. Browse around until Firefox auto-updates
(Note you might have trouble doing this as Firefox seems to auto-update on start-up before you can change settings.  Perhaps disable internet connection, then open Firefox)

Actual Results:  
Firefox forces auto-update.

Expected Results:  
A dialog box should pop-up telling me an update has been found and asking if I want to apply it.

On a related note Extensions are not auto-updated correctly, however I am not notified when Firefox finds an update, and have to manually check my extensions list every so often to see if an update has been found. There should be a pop-up dialog, or (more preferable for me) an icon that shows in the toollbar or somewhere to indicate available Extension updates.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 316725.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot situation

Hm, this seems to happen indeed.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot updating 1.5 to 1.5.0.2

It works well when updating 1.5 to 1.5.0.2 so it is only a regression in 1.5.0.1.

Comment 4

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

WFM from 1.5.0.1 (with modification of app.update.interval and .timer so that it checks more rapidly).

Could you provide a screenshot of all the app.update prefs from about:config ?

Comment 5

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

See also bug 319198.

Comment 6

[Ian Moody [:Kwan] (UTC+1)]

Attachment: Screenshot of about:config app.update prefs

Comment 7

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

(In reply to comment #6)

That looks very similar to what I have, except for the timestamps of course. Could you try your steps to reproduce when starting Firefox in safe mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode). That'll rule out extensions doing something unhelpful.

Comment 8

[Ian Moody [:Kwan] (UTC+1)]

Annoyingly I just failed to reproduce it, both in safe mode and with all extensions activated.  (I uninstalled then installed 1.5.0.1)  However after mentioning the bug to a friend he informed me he had also encountered the same problem yesterday, with no extensions installed (Also running XP).

Comment 9

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The screenshot of comment #2 is from a test in a new clean profile without extensions (first run) but the problem is that I couldn't repeat it once more with exactly the same profile and the same build. And it must be reproducible for programmers in order to fix it.

Comment 10

[John A. Bilicki III]

I downgraded to 1.5.0.4 and unchecked it to search for updates.  Five miuntes later I was told when the browser restarts it would re-upgrade to 1.5.0.6. So essentially this option does absolutely nothing.  Please fix it! :-)

Comment 11

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** Bug 357062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***