** 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.)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861931 Title: Ubuntu's version of Firefox says "You are currently on the update channel" in Help|About Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 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 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.) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/861931/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
