481893 - Sandbox Addon should notify (not autoupdate) of update available

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 375359

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, defect)

Description

[slamdunk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.166.1 Safari/530.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

A user with experimental addon never get notified of updated version of the addon. Its unsafe to auto-update experimental addon but there should be a way to tell the user that there is a new version available. Currently the user will have to manually visit AMO and search for the addon to find out if a newer version is available.
A notification (with small warning) of update availability should be safe.

See additional comments supporting this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375359#c9 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to AMO
2. Install experimental addon (the one authored by you)
3. Increment the version of experimental addon.
4. In browser Tools->Addons->Find Updates

Actual Results:  
No updates were found.

Expected Results:  
A message should be displayed that update for an experimental addon is available.

When I check the dashboard-statistics of my addon(experimental and never public released), I find that people are still using old version of my addon even though I have updated the version 5-6 times and have added many new features. Plus fixed some bugs.

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

I resolved this as a dupe although it's just talking about notification.  We can reopen if you like, but it would be a Firefox bug, not AMO.