[tor-bugs] #4234 [Firefox Patch Issues]: Investigate the Firefox update process

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#4234: Investigate the Firefox update process
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 Reporter:  mikeperry                 |          Owner:  mikeperry                    
     Type:  task                      |         Status:  needs_information            
 Priority:  major                     |      Milestone:  TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable
Component:  Firefox Patch Issues      |        Version:                               
 Keywords:  tbb-bounty tbb-usability  |         Parent:                               
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Comment(by gk):

 You might want to think about exactly which parts of the bundle you want
 to get updated with this updater and which not (if there are some at all).
 E.g. what about a user's profile directory? Not messing with it seems
 pretty straightforward as it contains user customizations and other user
 related stuff that should not get touched by an application updater. But
 that implies for instance that the current TBB build process needs to get
 changed as there is then no way anymore to just ship the language pack as
 an extension with the browser to get a localized build and this implies as
 well that one abandons the idea to ship the latest versions of add-ons
 included into the browser (e.g. NoScript) only via the updater and only
 after their latest changes passed a security review which seems quite
 appealing as well. There might be other issues here too like getting
 preferences in the prefs.js file updated (dunno if you store some version
 numbers there)...

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