841610 - Work - Shortcuts to other fx installs should not cause the default browser to open the target exe

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Shell, defect, P5)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

STR:

1) pin firefox install a on the taskbar while running
2) set firefox install b as the default browser
3) click on the taskbar shortcut

result: install b will open and ask you what you would like to do with "firefox.exe", which is the exe from install a.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

ugh. that's funky. is this a new problem in windows 8?

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Asa Dotzler [:asa] from comment #1)
> ugh. that's funky. is this a new problem in windows 8?

yes, it has to do with the new way we launch on win8.

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Does this really need to be a P1? It's specific to people who have multiple firefox installs, which is mostly devs and testers.

Comment 4

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Since most users don't have multi installs I think we should maybe make a multi install problem top level story (for v2) and assign a bunch of stuff to it, including this.  Kamil posted a bunch of different similar stories as well. I agree with jimm that we shouldn't do this in it4.
Also this problem will go away once all channels that people install are Metro.

Comment 5

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

I think this was fixed in bug 888363 as part of this changeset:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/60bf438fa2f2
Changeset first landed in bug 888363.
Marking as resolved so QA can test this as normal using comment 0 steps.

Comment 6

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Could this be added to the current iteration for testing as well?

Comment 8

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #6)
> Could this be added to the current iteration for testing as well?

Yes, I think it's ok. I will add it to the tracking doc and also verify it for this iteration, #13/

Comment 9

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I've tried 2 scenarios while testing this for iteration #13, and assuming

a = latest Aurora
b = latest Nightly
c = a Nightly from May 2013

here are my results (using Win 8 64bit):

- the STR from comment 0, work when using a and b
- the STR from comment 0 don't work anymore (I'm asked what I would like to do with "firefox.exe", while opening b from the taskbar, after I installed c and I opened it from the taskbar; but when I also open a from the taskbar, I don't get that dialog)

So this issue seems partially fixed. Does anyone have any suggestions/thoughts? Thanks!

Comment 10

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

You can't use a Nightly from May 2013 because that has the old CEH which has this bug in it. I think in c) you should be using the same build as b) just in a different location.

Comment 11

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #10)
> You can't use a Nightly from May 2013 because that has the old CEH which has
> this bug in it. I think in c) you should be using the same build as b) just
> in a different location.

This works. Marking this verified, based on comment 9, comment 10 and comment 11, with latest Nightly -build ID: 20130905030206, for iteration #13.