138840 - won install asks to close Mozilla windows and repeats

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 110882

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Art Copeland]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
BuildID:    20020419

prompts close all mosilla windows even when none and repeates nonstop

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to install Fridays daily
2.cry
3.

Actual Results:  wont install and wont stop asking w/o a reboot

Expected Results:  install

Comment 1

[Art Copeland]

remmove mozilla from computer and then installs 

Comment 2

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

Reporter: Have you checked that mozilla.exe is not listed under "Processes" in
the task manager?

Comment 3

[Art Copeland]

The comment added of see if the process is still active is exactly what is
wrong. The installer needs to install the stuff --no check this, remove that,
change this to that nonesense. If the process needs to be checked either the
error msg needs to include it or a workaround is done.  The Windows enviroment
at this point expects products to install anad work and the longer the UNIX
mentatlity supports the do this then do that and then reinstall there will not
be a siginicant market share for mozilla.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> The Windows enviroment at this point expects products to install anad work

This is why InstallShield always says to turn everything off before installing?

Basically, you're overwriting your existing mozilla installation.  Doing so
while Mozilla is running will cause the currently running Mozilla process to die
(since it will wipe out the executable and all associated files).  Since you may
have unsaved work in there, we politely ask you to shut it down before
continuing the install.

Are you using the "QuickLaunch" feature?  If all you had running was the
background quicklaunch stuff we should try to determine that and just shut
mozilla down...

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This is a duplicate of one of curt's bugs

Comment 6

[Jason Weisberger]

I agree.  The only thing that any Windows Installer program may do for the user
is  automatically close the program first.  Not completely necessary, however, a
nice feature.  Probably target for 1.1 or higher, if anything.  It's a dummy
feature, not a bug.

Comment 7

[Curt Patrick (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110882 ***

Comment 8

[Grace Bush]

verified