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App Update / Installer / Shell Integration status update
September 18th, 2009 by rstrong
Most of the last couple of weeks has been spent reviewing patches and finishing up the patch for Bug 508684 where I spent more time than I should have churning over the correct approach to take. I should have the review finished for Bug 491947 [Firefox] – “Disable DDE shell integration” soon as well. Progress: [...]
App Update / Installer / Shell Integration status update
September 3rd, 2009 by rstrong
I’m taking Friday off so I’m posting this early. Progress: Landed on 1.9.2 branch (already landed on trunk) – Bug 470979 [Toolkit:Application Update] – Keep a copy of the last-update.log renamed when the partial fails for troubleshooting Landed on 1.9.2 branch (already landed on trunk) – Bug 512994 [Toolkit:Application Update] – Deleting / recreating the [...]
How metrics helped improve the install experience…
September 1st, 2009 by rstrong
and gave me more time to spend with my pony As mentioned on the Blog of Metrics we changed the installer in Bug 404541 so we always provide a suggested installation directory. When I implemented the ability to install as a non-admin user I wanted the user to decide where to install Firefox since locations [...]