The BITS work is part of a larger project to support updating Firefox from a background Windows task vs. the internal mechanism. This will allow us to cut down on the prompting we currently do to do updates, which we get regular negative feedback on, and it will keep installed versions of Firefox that haven't been opened by the user in a while fully up to date and safe.
Regards, Jim On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:39 AM Nick Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 23:00, Jim Mathies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... new feature coming out (likely in 68 ESR) related to our > > update system. Currently Firefox updates by downloading > > update files internally while Firefox is running. We've added > > support for downloading via the Windows BITS service in 68. > [...] > > I'd be interested in any feedback customers might have on > > two areas ... Feel free to ask any other questions you might > > have! > > I'd be very interested if there's anything you can say as to *why* > Mozilla is doing this. Why not just continue with the Mozilla > home-baked mechanism, thus remaining immune to any unexpected changes > Microsoft may make to BITS in a future Windows ? > > The Mozilla mechanism does seem to work fairly well, with the possible > exception of the strange phenomenon of some PCs being randomly, > inexplicably and unpredictably much slower to receive a scheduled > update than others - is the move to BITS anything to do with improving > /that/ situation? > > Cheers > Nick Boyce >
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