Rollout of Major Update for Firefox 1.5 to 2.0
Mozilla announced previously that Firefox 1.5.0.12 would be the last available release in the Firefox 1.5 product series. In order to help users migrate to the latest supported Firefox release, the Major Update functionality was developed.
This week Mozilla will start testing major update with users on the Automated Update Service (AUS) “beta” channel, and within a couple of weeks, to general users on the “release” channel.
Mozilla will start presenting major update offers starting Thursday, June 7th in the afternoon (PDT). Firefox 1.5.0.12 users on the “beta” channel will be offered a major update to Firefox 2.0.0.4. Users will be presented with the following dialog box:
Here’s how it works:
- If a user selects “Later”, they will be prompted again in approximately 24 hours.
- If a user selects “Never”, they are opting to skip this offer to upgrade and will not be prompted again for this particular release (2.0.0.4). If Mozilla decides to offer a 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.5 major upgrade, the user will be prompted again with that new offer. Note: this new offer is not currently scheduled.
- If a user selects “Get the new version”, they will be asked to accept the revised End User License Agreement (EULA) for Firefox 2 in order to proceed with the upgrade. The major update will then be downloaded and the browser restarted with Firefox 2.0.0.4 as the current version.
Here are a few screenshots of the major update flow:
Finally, users will see the following successful update page.
For those of you testing this update, we appreciate any feedback or issues be directed to the Firefox prerelease feedback mailing list/newsgroups.
- Mailing list: visit https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo, click on feedback-firefox-prerelease and subscribe to the list
- Web newsreading: use Google Groups at http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease
- Dedicated news reading: point to news.mozilla.org, subscribe to mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease
Thanks.