621279 - Help - Information says "install update" and there isn't any

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Matteo Vicini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8

I've installed Firefox 4.0b7 and updated to b8 some days ago. I am using a "normal user", so a restricted one, for the everyday pc usage. Every system modification, also the firefox update I did, has to be done with the administrator password uac asks me. Some programs just seem to know they need this and automatically ask for it when I simply open them, others need the manual right-click and "run as administrator" to work, as the b7>b8 update I did. Strange this seemed not needed in ff 3, hope that's a detail you'll fine-tune later. Anyway, the bug I'm filing is about the fact that Firefox 4.0b8 actually says there's an update I need to install in help - information about ff - "Install update". On the logic I explained I would need to close ff, open it in admin mode, go there and click that button to update. But if I do this it says it's updated! 

So, summarizing:
normal user mode - gives an update available, but can't install due to restrictions (ff simply closes and opens itself again);
administrator mode - no update available, firefox 4.0b8 updated.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.win 7 x64
2.run system with a user in normal restricted mode
3.see in help - information about ff - it says 'install update'
4.open ff in admin mode to be able to do it
Actual Results:  
See there's no update in the same menu there

Expected Results:  
See there an update, or better in this case as there's no ff 4b9 out as I can see, don't see the update available in normal user mode

Comment 1

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

What happens when you click install update?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Matteo ??

> What happens when you click install update?

Comment 3

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

No response to requested information, closing as incomplete report.