Program Management/Programs/Silent Update

Goal

The existing Firefox desktop update mechanism may involve a number of user interactions. These interactions in turn cause user pain as updates are now frequent due to rapid release. The goal of this effort is to make the update process silent so that there is the minimal user interaction required.

Features

Force Page Refresh

Stage: Definition, Design, Planning, Development

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Stage: Landed

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Stage: Shipped

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Stage: Complete

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QA

QA is tracking silent update testing on the QA Firefox wiki page.

Weekly Meetings

• Thursdays - 1:00pm PST, 20:00 UTC
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99604 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99604 (US)
• Vidyo Room: 9604
• Vidyo Guest URL

Meeting Notes

• Thursday, Jan 5th, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Dec 8th, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Dec 1st, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Nov 24th, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Nov 17th, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Nov 10th, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Nov 3rd, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Oct 27th, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Oct 20th, 1:00pm PDT
• Thursday, Oct 13th, 1:00pm PDT
• Tuesday, Oct 4th, 10:00am PDT
• Tuesday, Sept 27th, 10:00am PDT

Actions

• Review suggestion to force update after grace period with product management (Asa) [clee] 20110920
  • Rob notes that this is a major change.