132573 - Mozilla always damages default browser setting after installation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117102

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Nik Borton]

Installing Mozilla on Win2k - either clean or over the top of a previous build,
in today's case, 0.9.9 Build ID 2002031104 over 0.9.8.

The default browser setting is *always* damaged, whether I accept the change of
default browser or not; in the install-over, I wasn't prompted at all, and still
the setting was damaged.

This manifests itself in such cases as, for example, clicking a link in Eudora;
IE (the previous, and for the moment my preferred, default) may or may not
appear. If it does, it won't apply the link address.

Going into Control Panel/Internet Options and turning on 'Internet Explorer
should check...', then closing all open IE windows and opening again results in
the 'Internet Explorer is not the default browser, do you want it to be?' dialog.

It's been like this for as long as I can remember. I don't remember it doing
this on WinMe last time I installed 0.9.8, though it definitely did here at work
on Win2k (both 0.9.8, which was 'clean', and 0.9.9 today, which was
over-the-top). It has done this to IEs 5.01, 5.5 SP2 and 6.0 on Win2k with or
without SP2.

I couldn't find anything this may be a dupe of, but I'm pretty bad with bugzilla
queries. It's not most freq/most dupe that I could see, at least. The 'Version'
on the bug form had only 'other' listed, which it's not set properly.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Installer doesn't set the default, the browser startup code does. -> law

Comment 2

[Nik Borton]

I just installed 0.9.9 (Build ID 2002031104) over 0.9.8 on my WinMe laptop and
it seems my memory was wrong (this is no surprise) - I'm confirming that the
browser (not the installer, I stand corrected) also damages the WinMe default
browser setting (which was IE 6.0).

Again, as it was an installation over an existing profile, I wasn't offered the
option of changing the default browser, but the IE option to check for the
default browser confirms that Mozilla is damaging it.

Also changing summary to reflect that it's a browser, rather than installer, bug.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

really reassign

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

-> law

Comment 5

[Paul Wyskoczka]

--> desktop intergration  qa [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Nik Borton]

Oh, wait, this seems to be a duplicate after all, of Bug 117102. I must have
queried the wrong field when I reported this.

Comment 7

[Waheed Islam]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117102 ***