685958 - Firefox 3.6 users upgrading to Fx 7 Should see First Run page on Upgrade

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Laura Mesa [:lmesa] [:lvmesa]]

Firefox 3.6.x users upgrading to Fx 4+ should see First Run page after upgrade. 

This is important because the change between these versions is substantial and we need to make sure the change is not to jarring. The FR helps accomplish that.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We removed the in-product whatsnew logic in bug 685727 (for Firefox 7).

Can we use bug 459972 for this?

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I don't think so, as support for the new attributes is not present in 3.6.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I thought the attributes were read on startup, by the new version?

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Ah, but maybe they're not saved by 3.6? rstrong?

Comment 5

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

No we can't. It was decided that we shouldn't backport the patches to 1.9.2 due to the code being different enough that it could cause regressions. Specifically, bug 549969 but there are additional bugs that would have needed to land as well.

Comment 6

[Laura Mesa [:lmesa] [:lvmesa]]

Is there anything else we can do?

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It looks like our only options here are to delay the major update offer until we can spin a new build to update *to* that includes some changes to support this (e.g. 7.0.2 or 8.0), which doesn't seem like something we'd do at this point.