723920 - Firefox 10 beta does not automatically update to Firefox 11 beta.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Vlad [QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
The update notification does not appear in Firefox 10 beta.

Steps to reproduce:
1.Change the update channel from 'beta' to 'releasetest'
2.In Firefox 10 beta, on a new clean profile, go to about:config and set the following settings:
  app.update.interval = 10
  app.update.idletime = 0
3.Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.
4.Browse around for 5 minutes

Actual results:
The notification that an update is available doesn't appear.

Expected results:
You should get a notification that an update is available.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

We haven't shipped this beta yet, no?

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Damnit, I missed the part about "releasetest".

Comment 3

[u279076]

As given by the update.xml file, updates are silent for Firefox 10 builds (not the case for Firefox 9 and earlier):
<update type="minor" displayVersion="11.0 Beta 1" appVersion="11.0" platformVersion="11.0" buildID="20120201153158" detailsURL="https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/11.0/releasenotes/" actions="silent">

As a result, if you turn app.update.log on and check Error Console you will see that the update is downloading in the background. You will not see a prompt until it has complete.

This is working as expected.