341624 - Check For Updates should provide option for full download

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 306864

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Schiller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060614 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060614 Minefield/3.0a1

The "Check For Updates" functionality in Firefox is awesome.  However, if I'm using a nightly and I haven't updated in a few days, I have to go through each and every incremental update, meaning many downloads and restarts.

My proposal is that Check For Updates should show the next available build PLUS the latest build (if not the same as the next).  Choosing to download and instal the latest build would require a full download, but this should still save me time and many restarts.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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

This will be obsolete when bug 306864 is fixed - then you'll get a partial update if you are one day behind, and a complete update to the latest build otherwise.

So this is either WONTFIX, or maybe a DUPLICATE of that other bug.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 306864 ***