372451 - Allow User to Cancel Update

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 336267

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.10 (20070221)

When updating Thunderbird from one version to the next via [Help > Check for Updates], the progress popup should contain a Cancel button that is enabled until downloading is completed.  Once actual updating begins from the downloaded MAR file, then the Cancel button should be disabled.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  With the immediately prior version of TBird installed, request [Help > Check for Updates] on the menu bar.  

2.  Proceed to initiate the update to the latest version.  

3.  Selecting the X to close the windows (upper-right corner), terminate the progress popup and TBird.  

4.  Restart TBird.  
Actual Results:  
The download and update process resumes from where it was interrupted.  There seems to be no way to really stop the update process without (in Windows) resorting to Ctrl-Alt-Del, locating the process, and killing it.  

Expected Results:  
There should be a Cancel button on the progress popup.  Closing both the progress popup and TBird itself should also terminate the update process.  

In all cases -- for any application -- the user should be able to cancel a download and subsequent update, at least before it has progressed to the point where a corrupted application would result from cancelling.

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

Can anyone explain how a Thunderbird bug report can be resolved as a duplicate of a Firefox bug?  

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Because the software update is shared code.