On 9/11/16 3:45 PM, David Fifield wrote: >> * We don't know what (8) or (9) is but it seems to us we are losing >> users over time and are only getting them back slowly if at all. A >> weekday/weekend pattern is visible there as well. > > Does Tor Browser continue checking for further updates in the span of > time between when it downloads an update and when it is restarted? For > example, you are running 6.0, the browser downloads the 6.0.1 update and > stages it and asks you to restart; does the browser check for updates > until you actually restart? If not, then the decreases in update pings > might be people being tardy in restarting their browser. That is a good theory, but I don't think update checks occur if there is a pending update. The code that checks and returns early is here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/tree/toolkit/mozapps/update/nsUpdateService.js?h=tor-browser-45.4.0esr-6.0-1#n2388 -- Mark Smith Pearl Crescent http://pearlcrescent.com/
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