Closed Bug 453188 Opened 16 years ago Closed 15 years ago

The "Check for Updates..." Help menu item is grayed out

Categories

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Menus
Version:
3.0 Branch
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318855

People

(Reporter: alex, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1 You simply cannot use the Help menu item to initiate a Firefox software update check. This may not be relevant, but the Firefox checkbox in the Updates tab of the Advanced section of the preferences is also grayed out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
Duplicate of #4318855?
Duplicate of #318855?
Thanks Mike. It sounds like, yeah. OS X this will happen if you run Firefox from within a DMG image. In such a case the menu item will be grayed out because the container is read only. Marking as duplicate.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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