891291 - connection to services.addons.mozilla.org:443/versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.org:443 despite updates are disabled

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Stefan]

User Agent: 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Firefox ESR 17.0.7 with an empty profile.
2. Preferences/Advanced/Updates:
    Firefox updates
    (X) Never check for updates
    Automatically update:
    [ ] Search Engines
3. Disable safebrowsing, set a proxy, wait watch connection attempts.    
    


Actual results:

3. Connections to services.addons.mozilla.org:443/versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.org:443


Expected results:

3. No connections.

Comment 1

[Loic]

I think you need to disable add-on updates in about:addons.

Comment 2

[Stefan]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> I think you need to disable add-on updates in about:addons.

Have disabled it. After some minutes Firefox connects to addons.mozilla.org:443

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Firefox 17.0.8esrpre
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130804 Firefox/17.0
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr17/rev/cab06c406ed8

I confirm the bug. I have set all add-ons to update manually (some time ago already) and yet I noticed today that Firefox was spontaneously offering to update a number of add-ons before I even checked for updates. It must have found "somewhere" that those add-on updates were available. (I also have set Firefox not to check for browser updates, I check that myself about once a day at ftp.mozilla.org.)

I don't see the bug in "trunk" SeaMonkey 2.22a1, defined as follows (with datestamp and both CSIDs added to the UA):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 SeaMonkey/2.22a1 ID:20130726003001 c-c:55edd6e9957e m-c:46d73e889cb4

Comment 4

[Loic]

Is it reproducible with the current FF22 or Nightly FF25?

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.