250573 - Security patch won't install

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 248486

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[David Balažic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Clicking on Install in the mentioned URL produces no action. It seems that it
just realoads the page ( the progress bar in the status line show some activity
for a few seconds )

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=154&vid=263&category=&page=releases
2. Click on the Install link in the thirs row ( why do all rows have the same
description ? )

Actual Results:  
Nothing ( maybe a page reload )

Expected Results:  
Something that fixes the security vulnerability.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Have you verified that it did not install with the vulnerability tests at
http://www.mccanless.us/mozilla/mozilla_bugs.htm ?

Comment 2

[David Balažic]

The first link open an explorer windows listin the syste \WINDOWS directory.
The rest gives a "no such file" error dialog ( MS IE 6.0 gives more or less the
same ).
Does this mean FF is patched ( and IE too ? ).

Comment 3

[shadytrees]

In about:config, do you see "network.protocol-handler.external.shell" set to
"false"? If so, then the patch has been installed.

Comment 4

[David Balažic]

No, I don't see it.

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

WFM.
You did click on "Install" to the right, above "Size: 1 KB", didn't you?
Are you able to install other extensions from update.mozilla.org?

Your options are:
1. Download the patch by right-clicking, save link as. Then drag and drop in in
Firefox's extension manager to install. Restart Firefox. It won't be listed in
the extension manager though.

2. Download Firefox 0.9.2 or a branch nightly.

3. Enter about:config in the url bar, right-click, New, Boolean, preference
name: network.protocol-handler.external.shell, value: false. That only affects
the current profile though.

Comment 6

[David Balažic]

I disagree. I clicked to install an important security fix. Nothing happened.
It should have either isntalled the fix or state why it did not do that.

Comment 7

[Michael Lefevre]

If the lack of an error is the problem, then this is a duplicate of bug 248486

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248486 ***

Comment 8

[David Balažic]

OK