[tbb-bugs] #13087 [Tor Browser]: "TorBrowser update failed" dialog showed up although no update was tried

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#13087: "TorBrowser update failed" dialog showed up although no update was tried
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     Reporter:  gk           |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Browser  |    Version:
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Comment (by mcs):

 We did not know it, but the browser will display the "update failed"
 dialog after a background update check fails 10 times.  You must have
 reached that threshold.  See:

 http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-
 esr24/source/toolkit/mozapps/update/nsUpdateService.js#2295

 Because of this issue, I think we need to deploy files generated by
 boklm's script (https://github.com/boklm/tb-update-response) under
 https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/update/ ASAP.  Who has access
 to the web site to make that happen?

 Related to "TorBrowser" vs. "Tor Browser", I think we should use "Tor
 Browser".  Most occurrences of the variant without the space come from our
 setting for MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME inside our .mozconfig files.  Should we
 add the space?

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