Program Management/Programs/Silent Update/2012-03-08

Features

Background updates

Owner: Ehsan (Dev), Vlad Ghetiu (QA)

• Will not land before the merge on Mar 13. Is still a candidate for uplift to Aurora 13.
• One issue on Vista where background update fails and the fallback is used. Ehsan is debugging.
• Robert is reviewing patches.

Updated workflow for updating users with incompatible add-ons

Owner: Rob, Chris, Ioana Budnar (QA)

• Targeted to Firefox 14 or 15 as other work has been prioritized ahead of this work.

Removal of OS Security dialog on Windows

Owner: Brian (Dev), Simona Badau (QA)

• Validating that fallback security patch is functioning as expected before uplifting to Aurora.
• Aurora Features testday last Friday
  • failed to garner any meaningful results for UAC Service
  • most attention was given to Media Controls Refresh and New Tab Page
  • expect the March 23 testday to be more successful as it focuses on UAC Service 100%