377342 - auto update fails when using non en_US locale

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 334136

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[is+mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; he-IL; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; he-IL; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

I have both he-IL and en-US xpi's installed and switch between theme (since pinstripe is badly broken, among other reasons). When using he-IL, firefox can't find any Firefox updates. I ran "Help-> Check if there are updates" (back translated from Hebrew) a few times in the past week and today, and it doesn't see 2.0.0.3. Updates for extensions work as expected. When I switched back en_US, it could magically find 2.0.0.3. Switching back to he-IL and no 2.0.0.3.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use he-IL
2. run check if there are updates
3. n
Actual Results:  
no updates found

Expected Results:  
2.0.0.3 find. 

Given that these are security updates which aren't found, this seems like a pretty big bug which leaves users vulnerable.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

Nick, you know something about this as I recall...