I found that neither Thunderbird nor firefox would auto update on my
system. Also in my case the help -> check for updates menu choice is
greyed out in both applications. After some experimenting, it seems to
be a permissions issue. If I start either application as the superuser I
can then choose the no longer greyed out check for updates and the
updates work fine.
Perhaps this applies in your case also.
Cheers.
D.
Leslie Katz wrote:
My Thunderbird version is 1.5.02. There's a new version out, 1.5.04. I
had my preferences set to be notified of updates, but wasn't notified.
I then used "Check for updates", but it denied there was any update
available. That made me wonder whether there was something wrong with
the site address it was using. I checked the address. It was using:
https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/1/%PRODUCT%/%VERSION%/%BUILD_ID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/
%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/update.xml
Is there anyone using Thunderbird who could tell me whether their
app.update.url entry in about:config says something different from the
above?
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