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[Daniel Holbert <dholbert+launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  STR:
   1. Start up Ubuntu's version of Firefox.
   2. Visit Help|About Firefox
  
  ACTUAL RESULTS:
    It says "You are currently on the  update channel."
  (Note the missing channel-name between "the" and "update".  The dialog has 2 spaces there, and no channel-name.)
  
  EXPECTED RESULTS:
-  Something like "You are currently on the <b>Ubuntu Packaging</b> update channel" or something like that.
+  Something like "You are currently on the <b>Ubuntu Packaging</b> update channel", or no mention of an update channel at all.
  
  This presumably happens because Ubuntu ships a version of firefox with
  Mozilla's update-channels disabled, and sends updates via its packaging
  system.  This makes sense; still, it's incorrect to say "You are
  currently on the  update channel".
  
  For comparison, the Firefox 7 official release (from Mozilla) says "You
  are currently on the <b>release</b> update channel."
+ 
+ (NOTE: In my own locally-built mozilla-central debug builds with
+ "ac_add_options --disable-updater", there's no mention of an update
+ channel at all in the About dialog.  It looks like Ubuntu's firefox
+ builds are built with --disable-updater, too, so I'd expect them to have
+ the same results -- not sure why they don't.)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861931

Title:
  Ubuntu's version of Firefox says "You are currently on the  update
  channel" in Help|About

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  STR:
   1. Start up Ubuntu's version of Firefox.
   2. Visit Help|About Firefox

  ACTUAL RESULTS:
    It says "You are currently on the  update channel."
  (Note the missing channel-name between "the" and "update".  The dialog has 2 spaces there, and no channel-name.)

  EXPECTED RESULTS:
   Something like "You are currently on the <b>Ubuntu Packaging</b> update channel", or no mention of an update channel at all.

  This presumably happens because Ubuntu ships a version of firefox with
  Mozilla's update-channels disabled, and sends updates via its
  packaging system.  This makes sense; still, it's incorrect to say "You
  are currently on the  update channel".

  For comparison, the Firefox 7 official release (from Mozilla) says
  "You are currently on the <b>release</b> update channel."

  (NOTE: In my own locally-built mozilla-central debug builds with
  "ac_add_options --disable-updater", there's no mention of an update
  channel at all in the About dialog.  It looks like Ubuntu's firefox
  builds are built with --disable-updater, too, so I'd expect them to
  have the same results -- not sure why they don't.)

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