On 9/11/16 3:45 PM, David Fifield wrote:
- We don't know what (8) or (9) is but it seems to us we are losing
users over time and are only getting them back slowly if at all. A weekday/weekend pattern is visible there as well.
Does Tor Browser continue checking for further updates in the span of time between when it downloads an update and when it is restarted? For example, you are running 6.0, the browser downloads the 6.0.1 update and stages it and asks you to restart; does the browser check for updates until you actually restart? If not, then the decreases in update pings might be people being tardy in restarting their browser.
That is a good theory, but I don't think update checks occur if there is a pending update. The code that checks and returns early is here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/tree/toolkit/mozapps/update/ns...