Closed
Bug 582700
Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
stop offering Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 updates to users running Windows 2000
Categories
(Release Engineering :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: beltzner, Assigned: bhearsum)
References
Details
(Keywords: relnote)
Attachments
(1 obsolete file)
Bug 577486 means that Windows 2000 builds fail to start up, and that code is shipped in Firefox 4 Beta 2. We should stop offering Beta 1 -> Beta 2 updates to Windows 2000 users immediately.
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Updated•14 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → bhearsum
Severity: normal → critical
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Comment 1•14 years ago
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I've disabled all updates (all platforms) to 4.0b2 while I figure out how to turn off only Windows 2000 ones.
Severity: critical → normal
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Comment 2•14 years ago
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I've never used unsupportedPlatforms before but based on what's there already I believe that this will block Windows 2000 users from receiving an update to 4.0b2, regardless of their current version. #webdev told me that only morgamic knows great detail about AUS. He's at blackhat but I'm working to get a hold of him. I'm try to figure out how to test this for myself, too.
Attachment #460965 -
Flags: review?(morgamic)
Comment 3•14 years ago
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I have a win2k system if you need someone to test this.
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Comment 4•14 years ago
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So, the patch I posted won't work without AUS code changes. It turns out that the unsupportedPlatforms array is only considered for major updates. We can't just start applying it to minor updates though, because that will halt Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.x -> 2.0.0.latest updates, which removes the update path for those older users to get on a newer version. If we changed the Windows snippets for 3.7a* and 4.0b1 -> 4.0b2 to be considered a "major" update my patch would work. The downside is that users would be prompted for the update rather than it being applied automatically at the next restart. To avoiding using the major update workaround going forward I believe we'll need one of the following: * Support Windows 2000 throughout the 4.0 live, to avoid anyone getting a browser that doesn't work * Make AUS support unsupportedPlatforms for minor releases -- would need to figure out how to do this without breaking minor updates * De-support Windows 2000 without the above and live with it.
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Comment 5•14 years ago
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Let's just relnote this, it looks like bug 577846 might get fixed for beta 3, and we're only talking about a few users at this point. Ben: can you file a follow up bug in the right component that allows us to filter by OS for minor as well as major updates?
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Comment 6•14 years ago
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Updates are back on. I'll file that bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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Updated•14 years ago
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Attachment #460965 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #460965 -
Flags: review?(morgamic)
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Comment 7•14 years ago
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Filed bug 582750 on unsupportedPlatforms support for minor updates.
Comment 8•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #4) > So, the patch I posted won't work without AUS code changes. It turns out that > the unsupportedPlatforms array is only considered for major updates. We can't > just start applying it to minor updates though, because that will halt Firefox > and Thunderbird 2.0.0.x -> 2.0.0.latest updates, which removes the update path > for those older users to get on a newer version. > > If we changed the Windows snippets for 3.7a* and 4.0b1 -> 4.0b2 to be > considered a "major" update my patch would work. The downside is that users > would be prompted for the update rather than it being applied automatically at > the next restart. Actually, this isn't the case. To force a prompt on trunk the snippet MUST provide a new attribute named showPrompt per bug 459972 comment #3. You wouldn't need to provide a billboard either since that is now controlled by the billboardURL attribute.
(In reply to comment #5) > Let's just relnote this, it looks like bug 577846 might get fixed for beta 3, > and we're only talking about a few users at this point. I think that should be bug 577486, and added the relnote keyword.
Keywords: relnote
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Comment 10•14 years ago
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Quite right, and relnote is live.
Updated•11 years ago
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