Closed Bug 1166343 Opened 9 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Updating Thunderbird breaks pinned app links on Windows taskbar, if TB is installed in non-default folder

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Installer
Version:
31 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: bugzilla-xhwk, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150415140819

Steps to reproduce:

Running Windows 7 Professional
Installed Thunderbird to a location (possibly drive) other than default.  Mine is installed on E:\, where C:\ is my OS drive.
Pinned Thunderbird to task bar
Updated Thunderbird


Actual results:

After the update, the shortcut pinned to the taskbar was replaced with one pointing to Thunderbird's default install location (C:\Program Files (x86)\...).  This shortcut fails because that's not where Thunderbird is actually installed.


Expected results:

The shortcut should not be altered, or if it must be (change in launch arguments, etc), use the actual install directory instead of the default one.  I have to unpin and repin Thunderbird to my task bar after every update.
OS: Unspecified → Windows 7
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
Component: Untriaged → Installer
Summary: Taskbar link replacement → Updating Thunderbird breaks pinned app links on Windows taskbar, if TB is installed in non-default folder
As of version 65.0b1, this appears to no longer be an issue during updates.
Thanks for the update
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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