Silent Update OS Dialogs/TestPlan: Difference between revisions

Silent Update OS Dialogs/TestPlan (view source)

Revision as of 14:18, 6 January 2012

1,562 bytes added , 6 January 2012

→‎Summary

Simona Badau

Confirmed users

1,333

edits

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 == Summary ==
 *On Windows updates (when Firefox is installed into the default Program Files Directory) cannot currently be made without the User Account Control (UAC) dialog prompting for elevated permissions.
+*The purpose of this subfeature is to make updates available and easy to perform whether they are made by an administrator or by a limited user account.
 *Firefox updates will be executed through a service named Mozilla Maintenance that will prevent UAC prompts to be displayed.
-*The purpose of this subfeature is to make updates available and easy to perform whether they are made by an administrator or by a limited user account.
+*The service is installed via software update, in the installer there is also a checkbox for whether or not install the service.
+*There will only be one Windows service for every product and every development channel.
+*After the service is started it will watch a directory for the new files - named 'work items', and will generate 'logs' for the install/uninstall and update processes that will be logged separately.
+** The work items can be found in the "updates" folder that is located in:
+***C:\ProgramData\Mozilla\updates - on Windows Vista and Windows 7
+***C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mozilla\updates - on Windows 2003 and Windows XP
+** Logs can be found in the "logs" folder that is located in:
+***C:\ProgramData\Mozilla\logs - on Windows Vista and Windows 7
+***C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mozilla\logs - on Windows 2003 and Windows XP
+**The newest log will always be called maintenanceservice.log and 5 backup logs will be stored for the last 5 operations before the latest
+(maintenanceservice-1.log, maintenanceservice-2.log, maintenanceservice-3.log, maintenanceservice-4.log and maintenanceservice-5.log).
+*If a service is already installed, the service will be replaced on updates and installs only if it is newer than what is installed.
+*If the user is running on an x64 computer with a native x64 build, then the service will not be installed nor used by that build.
+*If the user is on an x64 computer with an x86 build, then the service will be used and installed by the build as an x86 process.
 == Reference ==