541303 - Installer should check for and if found opt in to downloading latest version.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 322206

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[John A. Bilicki III]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

I read the following blog here...
http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/01/05/55-of-new-users-install-old-versions-of-firefox/

...and honestly Firefox should already be checking for newer versions to install during the installation.

The installer should automatically opt-in to installing the newer version however as a web designer I install older versions for testing purposes so the ability to opt out is a must.

Reproducible: Always




Remember, only savvy users have a reason to opt-out and we should have the ability to opt-out. However non-savvy users will not inherently opt-in most of the time since it adds an extra choice and they'll either not understand it or not particularly care (hence why many non-corporate visitors are still using IE6).

Comment 1

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

Some people actually want to install an older version. For example, they install a new version and an add-on doesn't work, etc.

We do want to have a stub installer which would accomplish this same affect while still allowing people to use the current installer to install a specific version.

Duping over to the stub installer bug