Closed Bug 672249 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

updates are written to application bundle

Categories

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Application Update
Version:
5 Branch
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 394984

People

(Reporter: allan, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27

Steps to reproduce:

The self-updater (About: Check for Updates) in FF 5 writes the updates it downloads to /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/updates. This is not good. Applications should not write within their bundle. By doing so, only the person that installed FF can update it through the updater. 



Actual results:

Self updater writes within the the applications bundle.


Expected results:

the self-updater should write the updates to a shared location, like /Library/Application Support/Firefox/updates. Also, if the person trying to perform the update is not the person that originally installed the program, FF should prompt the user for admin credentials and then perform the update.
Component: General → Application Update
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
QA Contact: general → application.update
The location to write update info, download the update, and request permissions for Mac OS X is all required and covered by bug 394984
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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