661581 - Every several hours a window pops up asking to update to Firefox 5 but there is no affordance to turn off this prompting

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[blazar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Every several hours a window pops up asking to update to Firefox 5 but there is no affordance to turn off this prompting.

app.update.channel config is set to release.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Leave FF4 open for extended duration.

Actual Results:  
Saw the update dialog several times, on different computers.

Expected Results:  
A checkbox or button that disables the update prompt.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Automatic updates are set in Option -> Advanced -> Update.
However, there should be no notification for Firefox 5 (final), that is not yet released. Are you sure you aren't on the "beta" channel of FF4?
Can you provide a screenshot of your whole FF window and this notification?

Comment 2

[blazar]

Attachment: Screenshot showing Firefox and update to FF5 window

If I open about:config, app.update.channel is set to release. Otherwise I'm not sure where to look for this info.

Comment 3

[:aceman]

Try this:
1. right click the icon for your Firefox, click Show Package Contents.
2. and navigate to Contents/MacOS/defaults/prefs/channel-prefs.js
3. check if there is also the "release" channel set.

(I do not know Mac OS X, but these instructions were given to me).

Comment 4

[blazar]

That worked. Not the friendliest solution but does the job.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

So what was the problem? Did you have "beta" in there?

Comment 6

[blazar]

On one machine with the issue it said release and the other said beta. Not sure if this is relevant but the machine which had beta in the file is the 'first' machine and the other was synched to it (using Firefox Sync, I mean).

Comment 7

[:aceman]

So you rewrote beta to release and no longer get the notification on both machines?

You say you got the notification even on the second machine that had release in the file channel-prefs.js ?