345910 - Software Updater progress screen should be branded

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Michael Clackler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060725 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060725 Minefield/3.0a1

The Updater program displays an unbranded screen saying "Firefox is installing your updates and will start in a few moments ..."  There is no branding of the screen at all.  The lack of branding looks a little unprofessional and in this day and age looks like a spyware program is installing.  The screen should be branded following the changes in bug 341697.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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

The wizard of 341697 is not actually related to updater - the former is a XUL/JS confection, and the latter an executable that runs natively on the platform (while the app is shutdown). 

Comment 2

[Michael Clackler]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The wizard of 341697 is not actually related to updater - the former is a
> XUL/JS confection, and the latter an executable that runs natively on the
> platform (while the app is shutdown). 

Understanding this, the Updater executable would look much more polished with branding of the type used in bug 341697.  While Updater is "not really" Firefox per say, the program is a part of a built-in feature, is called from the program, and has no other use except as part of Firefox.

Having an unbranded form appear saying simply something is installing is a little unnerving especially when using a browser.  With past experiences on IE (years ago...), such an unbranded form with no way to cancel saying something was installing was always some type of malware.  For users new to the experience of Firefox, this basically blank form might be a little alarming.

The software update feature is one of the most "pushed" features, and this form should appear to be part of Firefox with the appropriate branding (icons).

Comment 3

[Michael Clackler]

requesting blocking 2.0 since this completes the software update UI branding started in bug 341697 which was blocking 2.0

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I don't think this is a bad thing, but it's very difficult and there's no way it's going to make FF2.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

What Benjamin said is true, this would be nice to have, but major changes to the updater app are out of scope for six days until beta2

Comment 6

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

limi and faaborg, need a ux decision on this. My personal opinion is we shouldn't do this.

Comment 7

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Best fix is silent updates :)