1558206 - Icon for Firefox is not pinned after installation under Windows 10 v1903

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

Affected versions

• Firefox Beta 68.0b8
• Firefox Nightly 69.0a1 (2019-06-10)

Affected platforms

• Windows 10 1903 (Build 18362.145)

Steps to reproduce

1. Start Firefox Installer.
2. Proceed with the normal installation.
3. Observe the taskbar.

Expected result

• A icon for Firefox is pinned on the taskbar.

Actual result

• The icon is not pinned.

Regression range
This is not a regression, since it is only affected by a specific Windows 10 version.

Comment 1

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

I think 1903 has broken the (unsupported) method that I was using to do this; the shell verb is running and returning success, but it's not making any attempt to pin anything. Presumably there's been some new checks added. I'll try to get around to investigating at some point, but the best idea may be to just give up on this game.

Comment 2

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

Does this remove the pinned icon when installing on pre 1903 and the updating to 1903?
I wonder if it's still worth shipping for pre 1903 users:

• Per telemetry 1903 users (build 18362) only account for 2.69% of all our Win10 users (https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/63295/source)
• 1903 stub installs only account for 11% of Win10 installs and rough trend observation tells us that pre 1903 installs should still account for over half of installs a year from now: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/63278/source#162132

Comment 3

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

So I did an update from 1809 to 1903 with an automatically pinned icon for Firefox 68.0b11, and it was still present after the update. The thing is that any user which will update further from now on, will update directly to 1903.

Comment 4

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Looks like Opera 73 is able to pin itself perhaps with something that opens up the context menu to select the pin menu item?

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

adavis, sounds like this bug should be marked WONTFIX as from comment 1 and perhaps more recent comments from Microsoft that pin by default during installation is a bad practice. Instead maybe we should try asking the users to pin - bug 1686343.