Features

Lessen the showing of the what's new page

Owner: Lawrence

We landed this change for 8. Great work.
Change allows to show or hide the what's new page.
Will show the what's new page for users moving up from 3.6 but not for users moving up from 7.

Owner: Brian

Security review went well (review notes)
- New ideas for test cases.
- Open issues like how do we handle crash reports.
Don't know how to store certificates to do updates - need to find out if a registry or settings file will be acceptable
This feature needs to land on nightly.
Currently blocked by bug 663055 - need to wait for driver signing before we can land it, can land code but can't turn it on beforehand
- Lawrence to follow-up with Chris Atlee
This change won't be visible by end users until release +1 as the service needs to be installed. This means if it ships in FF10, users won't see the results of this change until FF11.

Owner: Chris

Owner: Ehsan

Two options being considered, review and comment in Implementation Strategies wiki page.
- Asked bsmedberg and a couple of other people for feedback.
More than likely this will make FF11.
Should have a better idea of when this can be done by next week.
Think that this should improve the Linux and Mac experience quite a bit.

Owner: Rob to work with Asa.

Owner: Rob

Landed change for display delay from 12 to 24 hours in FF8.
- Delay is per session as when you exit your session you apply the update.
Remaining work
- If there's a newer update we should cancel the older update and download the newer one, this affects nightly and aurora and is less important for release as the updates are every 6 weeks.

Curtis raised a concern over the updates being too silent. We have the ability to inform users via the "know your rights" popup if we need to. We can investigate further if required.