1211815 - maintenance service was downgraded upon installing TB

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 784438

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect, P3)

Description

[alexios]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20150929144111

Steps to reproduce:

1: install latest firefox. notice that it will also install the same version of maintenance service, in that case 41.0.1. (image 1)

2: install latest TB v38.3.0.

3: the maintenance service will be auto downgraded to the version matching TB.  (image 2)


Actual results:

the maintenance service was downgraded to the version TB has bundled, while a higher version was already present in the pc.

i think it wasn't possible for this to happen.


Expected results:

maintenance service should always remain in the higher version that any new program installs, and never downgrade to a lower version.

Comment 1

[alexios]

any update on the issue?

Comment 2

[alexios]

i would like to report that i installed TB 38.7.0 and it replaced the maintenance service (v.45) from FF 45 to it's own.

my initial request that the maintenance service should never downgrade is still valid.

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This is due to the installer overwriting the registry entries that are displayed. The maintenance service itself isn't downgraded.