Lessen App Update Displayed UI

Summary

• A notification that there is an update downloaded/ready to install and Firefox needs to be restarted to apply the update is displayed 24 hours after an update has been downloaded.
• This changes the old notification time from 12 to 24 hours.
• This feature is available starting Firefox 8 Beta

Reference

• Design and infrastructure:
  • Bug 659425 - get average session length from crash stats and Test Pilot studies
  • Bug 657472 - 'Tune' the time to wait before displaying the update been downloaded / restart notification and provide ability to override in the update xml

Use Cases to Test

Basic Functional Testing

• Steps to verify:
  • Install a version of Firefox which requires updates
  • Launch Firefox
    
  • Go to Help/About Firefox
    
  • After the new version is downloaded, simply close the About dialog and leave Firefox running for at least 24 hours
    
• Expected result:
  • After 24 hours a notification to restart Firefox in order to apply the update should be displayed
    

Edge Cases

• Also, the notification should occur with no problem after 24 hours if:
  
  • Multiple tabs are loaded
    
  • Multiple browser windows are available
    
  • Browser is in Panorama mode
    
  • Heavy user profile is loaded (large history, multiple bookmarks, user settings, tabs, add-ons)
    
  • Private browsing is on
    

Test Cases

• A list of test cases for this feature can be found here: Test Cases

Important bugs

• bug 659425 - get average session length from crash stats and Test Pilot studies
• bug 657472 - 'Tune' the time to wait before displaying the update been downloaded / restart notification and provide ability to override in the update xml