670926 - Firefox 5 did not find version update to 5.0.1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[sys.sgx]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1
Build ID: 20110707182747

Steps to reproduce:

Browsed to the About dialog. Clicked on the check for updates button, but firefox could not find version 5.0.1
I'm using el localized version, with auto-updates check not turned on.
Had to download the new version from the website.



Expected results:

Should have notified me of the new version update 5.0.1

Comment 1

[Cork]

Firstly the update isn't pushed to all users at once, to lessen the loads on the servers. Secondly 5.0.1 is for Mac OSX only. It's to fix a crash problem caused by deprecated api.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0.1/releasenotes/

Comment 2

[sys.sgx]

Thanks Cork. :)
Havent been notified before about the loads issue, i thoght it was instant for everyone. btw 5.0.1 is also available for windows users, although the changes are only for osx.

thanks

Comment 3

[Thomas Ahlblom]

A blog post about this issue:
http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2011/07/12/why-are-there-no-firefox-5-0-1-and-3-6-19-automatic-updates-for-windows-and-linux/