[tor-dev] Tor Browser downloads and updates graphs

[Mark Smith]

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/nsUpdateService.js?h=tor-browser-45.4.0esr-6.0-1#n2388

-- 
Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent
http://pearlcrescent.com/

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