418207 - Software Update suggests a hard-coded URL for a manual install

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 FireShot 0.31 (http://screenshot-program.com)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 FireShot 0.31 (http://screenshot-program.com)

Software Update suggests a hard-coded URL for a manual install, as you can see in the screen shot. I'm running Minefield, and I'm suggested to download the latest Mozilla Firefox version.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrés Delfino]

Attachment: Screen shot.

Comment 2

[Andrés Delfino]

Can someone please confirm this?

Comment 3

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

I bet that's coming from
 app.update.url.manual = http://www.mozilla.org/products/%APP%/

Didn't look at how %APP% is substituted but I'm willing to guess that it comes out of way branding works for nightlies. In particular, if you want the executable to be firefox.exe (and that is wanted for some reason I can't recall), then you'll end up with firefox the URL. That said, I don't think this is a very big deal, and highly unlikely to get fixed before Fx3 comes out.

Comment 4

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

This is controlled by a pref and would need to be fixed in Firefox itself and not in app update so moving to Firefox -> Preferences.

btw: the pref for release builds is http://firefox.com