583534 - Make timespan for Recent Updates pane a preference

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Bug 562622 adds the Recent Updates pane, with a hardcoded timespan. Would be nice to have this as a hidden preference.

Comment 1

[David E. Ross]

The current timespan is 48 hours.  For extensions that have updates only once or twice a year, that is far too short.  This RFE is definitely needed.  However, I question why this has to be a "hidden preference".  Why can this not be set by a user interface?

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The current timespan is 48 hours.  For extensions that have updates only
> once or twice a year, that is far too short.  This RFE is definitely needed.
> However, I question why this has to be a "hidden preference".  Why can this
> not be set by a user interface?

Whether or not to have a UI for this pref would be the subject of up to three different bugs, all dependent on this one, and in Firefox::Preferences, SeaMonkey::Preferences and/or Thunderbird::Preferences. This bug, in Toolkit::Add-ons_Manager, is about the common backend.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.