147199 - Internet Search setting is always reset to "Netscape"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86063

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Ken Beal]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3)
Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

Upon installing a newer build, the Internet Search setting is always reset to
"Netscape", regardless of what I had set it to before.

This setting should be maintained across reinstallations.

I am marking this "Critical" because it is losing data (the value the user had
changed it to).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla.
2. Change search setting.
3. Install newer version.
4. Search setting is reset to Netscape.

Actual Results:  Search setting is reset to Netscape.

Expected Results:  Search setting should remain at what I changed it to.

(Note: I just tried to reproduce it in a VM.  I installed RC3, changed setting
to Google, then reinstalled.  It stayed Google.  So I removed it, deleted the
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla" directory, and installed RC2.  When I went to change
the setting, it was still Google!  But on my main machine, it keeps changing the
setting back, so perhaps it's not reinstall, perhaps it's something else --
maybe this happens after Windows 2000 blue-screens?  If that's the case then it
should do a better job of *saving* the settings when the user clicks "OK".)

Comment 1

[tironsi]

I've noticed this behavior too, but I am also not sure why it happens or how to
reproduce it. It's not a big deal though, so I don't see why it would be critical.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Reporter: On the machine where you see the bug:
Did you install after uninstalling, or over an older build?

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86063 ***

Comment 4

[Ken Beal]

R.K.Aa: This machine has had 0.9.7 through RC3 installed, on top of each other.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

verified