[indiana-discuss] Thunderbird and Firefox: check for updates not available?

[Calum Benson]

On 16 Jun 2008, at 22:33, Andras Barna wrote:

> hi
> "check for updates" is disabled in *every* distribution shipped
> tbird/ff because the updates come from the repositories. the "menu
> update" can introduce new bugs, are compiled with different options
> (@mozilla.org) etc. if i know correctly :)

I think you're right, although from a usability perspective it would  
be better if it was hidden rather than disabled.  (Disabled generally  
means "not available right now, but there's something you can do to  
make it available", which isn't true in this case.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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