It appears that there is a problem with the Firefox Software Update, at
least in Firefox 1.0 on Windows and Mac OS X.

In Preferences -> Advanced -> Software Update there are checkboxes to
Periodically check for updates to Firefox and My Extensions. It doesn't
appear that this feature works at all. I've not been notified via this
method that Firefox 1.0.1 has been released, even manually hitting the
Check Now button (that takes a minute or so to do it's thing over a
cable internet connection) happily reports back to me that there are no
available updates.

Now, there are a couple of bugs, listed as critical in bugzilla, that
confirm that I'm not alone with these problems, however they don't
appear to be assigned to anyone at this stage. I believe that this
issue deserves more attention than it's currently getting as security
is one of the stated design goals of the project and with no working
auto-update feature we're potentially being put in a worse position
than with other vendor's alternatives that at least have monthly
updates.

Regards,
Kai Howells

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