1417465 - Can't install ESR and Stable in the same time on Windows

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

I got a report on Twitter that we can't easily install ESR and Stable together on Windows, as we provide only the Installer, and it doesn't handle properly this setup:

* if ESR installed, Quantum installer offers to upgrade it
* if Quantum is installed, the ESR installer uninstalls it even when the user requests to install it elsewhere.

Any workaround ?

Comment 1

[Molly Howell (she/her) (mostly inactive)]

Yeah, I admit this situation is not well-supported.

You can get both versions installed by using the custom installation option in the ESR installer and selecting a different installation directory (by adding "ESR" to the end of the name, for example). But you'll also have to make your own shortcuts, since the version that's installed second will overwrite the first one's shortcuts.

The shortcut issue is hard to fix, since I don't think we want to have "ESR" as part of the shortcut name. But I think we could manage not having ESR try to "upgrade" an existing release installation, and I think that would be a bit more reasonable behavior.

Comment 2

[Aaron Kempf]

I vote to bump this up. I installed firefox, developer and ESR onto the same machine because I hate chrome and I generally want TWO copies of firefox. I don't really care if one is esr or not. I just want one with add-ons and one without add-ons.

It looks like I have all three installed to distinct paths. To be honest I think that the install directory and the data directory shld EACH be allowed to be configured. I don't know how many people have problems with storage space on the C drive but with everyone moving to solid states? It doesn't matter how big it is I've had problems running out of space on every C drive I've used since August 1995 when windows 95 and I shared a 110mb disk.

I want to be able to put my data and my install on the D drive. I want to be able to install Firefox and Firefox2. It doesn't matter with where the ESR vs non ESR. I think that firefox should be like Sql Server started being twenty years ago. Support multiple different installs.