On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:12:15AM -0400, Mark Smith wrote: > On 9/11/16 3:45 PM, David Fifield wrote: > >> * We don't know what (8) or (9) is but it seems to us we are losing > >> users over time and are only getting them back slowly if at all. A > >> weekday/weekend pattern is visible there as well. > > > > Does Tor Browser continue checking for further updates in the span of > > time between when it downloads an update and when it is restarted? For > > example, you are running 6.0, the browser downloads the 6.0.1 update and > > stages it and asks you to restart; does the browser check for updates > > until you actually restart? If not, then the decreases in update pings > > might be people being tardy in restarting their browser. > > That is a good theory, but I don't think update checks occur if there is > a pending update. The code that checks and returns early is here: > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/tree/toolkit/mozapps/update/nsUpdateService.js?h=tor-browser-45.4.0esr-6.0-1#n2388
Oh, thanks for finding that source code link. I looked for that code and didn't find it. But that's exactly what I'm saying: once someone has downloaded an update, they stop sending update pings until their next restart, which might explain the decreases in update pings at (8) and (9) in the graphs. _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
