112822 - Mozilla never offers to be your default browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97975

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001112708 (and every build before that), Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
1.  Install Mozilla.
2.  Run Mozilla.
3.  Quit Mozilla.

What should happen:
*   At some point, you are asked: `Your default Web browser is currently {some
    browser, probably MSIE or 4.x or Opera}. Would you like Mozilla to be your
    default browser instead?'

What actually happens:
*   Your default Web browser remains not-Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Some installer work required here.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

-> default assignee

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

->law, cc jag

Comment 4

[Bill Law]

->Installer

If we want to do a runtime check like we do on Windows (to give the user a 
chance to remedy their error if they've installed some other "default browser") 
then I can help describe how it is done on Win32 (if that helps).

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

not installer. the installer installs mozilla nothing more...

Comment 6

[Peter Trudelle]

->law.  Bill, I gave this to you because you do this work on Windows.  I cc'd
Jag so he could help you implement it on Mac as well.  Perhaps the assign/cc
should be the other way round, but between the two of you, we should figure out
how/when to do this.

Comment 7

[Bill Law]

Future-ing; need Mac expertise which I don't have and this bug isn't high 
enough priority...

Comment 8

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I find it hard to find a higher priority bug.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->sdagley? punt as needed...

Comment 10

[Andy Lyttle]

Yeah, this is a run-time issue, not an installer issue.  There should be a
preference to check at launch time, on by default.  Besides, there is no OSX
installer AFAIK.

By the way, OS should be All, not just 9.x, since OSX has the same issue, unless
the fixes are OS-specific.

Whenever I upgrade Mozilla, OSX decides it can't find the previous version of
Mozilla anymore, so it changes my default browser back to IE.  I always forget
about this until I click a link and IE launches.  So yeah, this is pretty
important.  Wish I had the expertise to fix it.

Comment 11

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97975 ***