635206 - make an option to install add-ons updates in background automatically, its annoying.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 511529

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[shimon doodkin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I use Firefox rarely when chrome annoys me. with its huge dependence on virtual memory(hard disk speed slowness) so it becomes unworkable, so I open Firefox.

Each time I open Firefox I get a funny annoying box witch tells me that Firefox should be updated and restarted.

Make an option to install add-ons updates in background automatically.
It is annoying to see the update addons window each time I open Firefox.
and to mess with it operating it, I asked myself why it can't do all this automatically..


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install fire fox, install some addong witch actively developed and updates frequently
2. close firefox waite some time
3. open firefox
4. you will get a window of update addons
5. repeat steps 2 to 3 many times, you will always get the result of step 4


Expected Results:  
no popup window,
updates are installed.

or in the menu will be th 'update addons' menu item with a highlighted number of addons that could be updated.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Background addon update added in Firefox 4, please either use the beta:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/beta/

...or else wait for the final version of Firefox 4 to be released (exact ETA unknown, but approx a month +/-).