[Bug 861931] Re: Ubuntu's version of Firefox says "You are currently on the update channel" in Help|About
Daniel Holbert
dholbert+launchpad at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 19:48:25 UTC 2011
** Description changed:
STR:
1. Start up Ubuntu's version of Firefox.
2. Visit Help|About Firefox
ACTUAL RESULTS:
It says "You are currently on the update channel."
(Note the missing channel-name between "the" and "update". The dialog has 2 spaces there, and no channel-name.)
EXPECTED RESULTS:
- Something like "You are currently on the <b>Ubuntu Packaging</b> update channel" or something like that.
+ Something like "You are currently on the <b>Ubuntu Packaging</b> update channel", or no mention of an update channel at all.
This presumably happens because Ubuntu ships a version of firefox with
Mozilla's update-channels disabled, and sends updates via its packaging
system. This makes sense; still, it's incorrect to say "You are
currently on the update channel".
For comparison, the Firefox 7 official release (from Mozilla) says "You
are currently on the <b>release</b> update channel."
+
+ (NOTE: In my own locally-built mozilla-central debug builds with
+ "ac_add_options --disable-updater", there's no mention of an update
+ channel at all in the About dialog. It looks like Ubuntu's firefox
+ builds are built with --disable-updater, too, so I'd expect them to have
+ the same results -- not sure why they don't.)
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