Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

Unchecking "Firefox" under update check preferences makes it impossible to check again

Bug #220341 reported by André
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Mozilla Firefox
Invalid
Undecided
auto-skykidskr
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Edit->Preferences, click on Advanced and select the Update tab.
2. Uncheck the Firefox checkbox under "Automatically check for updates to".

Result: The Firefox checkbox is greyed out, making it impossible to revert the change you just performed.

Expected behaviour: The checkbox should be unchecked, but not greyed out. Or preferably: the Firefox checkbox should be unchecked and greyed out by default on Ubuntu, since the distribution handles updates to Firefox.

See the attached screenshot for a visual description of the bug.

This is tested using 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 on an up-to-date daily build of Hoary as of the 21th of April.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 21 21:03:14 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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André (andred-ubuntu-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Charles A. McCarthy (mccarthy-math) wrote :

  Confirmation of improper behavior. System: Ubuntu 8.04 i386 desktop installed fresh from CD and updated to 06 July 2008 on ABIT NF7-S2G board with Athlon XP 1500+, Phoenix BIOS 6.0, 1G ram, 300G HD.
  As installed, all boxes on the Firefox page Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Updates are checked, the button for "Automatically download ..." is selected, and nothing is greyed out. If I now select the button "Ask me ...", the whole area from the "Ask me ..." button to the end of the page becomes greyed out and on future sessions, the top check box with "Firefox" is also greyed out. I cannot now recover the original state. This broken state persists through a "complete removal" (via Synaptic) of ubufox and all four default firefox packages, shutdown, reboot, and reinstallation. The only way I have found to restore the original state is to remove my .mozilla directory, but that doesn't correct the improber greying-out behavior.
  Doing the complete removal, erasing .mozilla, and reinstalling only the four firefox packges but not ubufox, makes no difference in the behavior.
  I also sent this to mozilla, having not found this mentioned there.

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SkyKiDS (skykidskr) wrote :

Hi! :)
You can change the items in "about:config", but the problem is still exist.

about:config > app.update.auto and app.update.enabled

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

It's greyed out because Firefox in Ubuntu doesn't do its own updates. That is disabled. Synaptic handles updates. The fact that the box is checked and looks available to begin with is the real bug. This shouldn't be reported upstream because it's nothing to do with upstream.

This is a duplicate of bug 275706

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status: New → Invalid
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