No update function in Firefox 1.0.6?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 21.07.2005, 14:32 -0400 schrieb Matthew Saltzman: 
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 21.07.2005, 12:24 -0400 schrieb Matthew Saltzman:
> >> I recall that there was a button in Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced that
> >> would check if your Firefox or extensions needed updates.  This button
> >> appears to be missing from firefox-1.0.6-1.1.fc4.  Is that intentional?
> >> And if so, what do I need to do to keep my extensions up to date?
> >>
> > Extras -> Extensions -> right click on an extension and choose update.
> 
> It's really unpleasant to have to do that individually for each extension. 
> Also, there was *no* feedback when I tried it, so I have no idea if 
> something was updated, there was no update, or something failed.

Same here. 
> 
> Was the original method removed upstream or in the Fedora package?  Any 
> explanation why?

I _guess_ it because auf a new (?) auto-update mechanism. Take a look at
about:config.extensions.update.autoUpdate
about:config.extensions.update.autoUpdateEnabled 

Looks to me like setting both to yes should enable automatic updates.

Also I remember a small icon in the top right corner next to the
throbber icon that came up whenever one of my extensions were out of
date. If haven't seen it for a while, so maybe automagically updating
extensions is already active since FF 1.0.x ?

Christoph