655430 - Message text is wrong when changing update channel using channel switcher.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Craig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110506 Firefox/5.0a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110506 Firefox/5.0a2

When you use the option to change update channel from Aurora to Beta, as soon as you click the "Apply and Update" button, the "About Aurora" screen tells you that "You are currently on the Beta update channel". This is before the update (or even the download of the update) has completed.

As part of the update process the user is presented with an "Apply Update" button but the message below the button - "You are currently on the Beta update channel" - wrongly suggests that the change has already been performed.

The same sort of thing occurs when changing from Beta to Aurora.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Aurora.
2. Click Help > About Aurora.
3. Click the "Change" link.
4. Choose the option to switch to the Beta update channel.
5. Click The "Apply and Update" button.


Actual Results:  
The message below "Downloading update ..." reads "You are currently on the Beta update channel".

Expected Results:  
The message should not say you are on the channel you are changing to until the update has actually taken place.

Comment 1

[Joe Vornehm Jr.]

Happens for me, too.  The text is not strictly wrong, but it can be misleading: The update channel is where the browser looks for updates, which can be different than the currently-executing browser version.  (Indeed, this is what you want if you're switching channels!)  But "You are currently on the Beta update channel" can easily be construed as "You are running the Beta version of the browser."

Perhaps the channel indicator text could be a little more explicit:
if (channel == current_browser)
    channel_status = "You are on the [channel] update channel.";
else
    channel_status = "You have switched to the [channel] update channel.  Click Apply Update to start running the latest [channel] version."

Comment 2

[AndreiD[QA]]

Reproducible on:
Windows
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110606 Firefox/6.0a2
Mac
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110606 Firefox/6.0a2
Linux
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110606 Firefox/6.0a2

*Setting resolution to NEW

Comment 3

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

Channel switching was removed.