[tor-bugs] #16632 [Tor Browser]: Turn on the background autoupdater

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#16632: Turn on the background autoupdater
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  mikeperry
  mikeperry              |     Status:  new
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  tbb-5.0a4, TorBrowserTeam201507,
  Browser                |  MikePerry201507, tbb-usability
   Resolution:           |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by mikeperry):

 With respect to turning on the background updater as per this ticket, I'm
 wondering if there is any way to alert the user earlier that they should
 restart. In ages gone by, there used to be a pref
 app.update.nagTimer.restart, that would nag the user after a certain time
 period that they should restart their browser. It appears this code has
 been removed.

 Now it seems that the only codepaths that lead to notification are when
 the update download is complete, and it also seems that this notification
 is disabled in onStopRequest in
 ./toolkit/mozapps/update/nsUpdateService.js (due to shouldShowPrompt being
 false in our case).

 Is there an easy way to restore the nagging behavior? I am now worried
 that background updates may actually lead to people leaving their Tor
 Browser running with the update downloaded and not be aware that they need
 to restart (though I suppose the Torbutton nagging should help with it,
 more nagging would be better :).

 Should this also be a separate ticket?

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