MSI installer doesn't allow installing in a folder other than C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
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(Firefox :: Installer, defect)
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(Reporter: bsarmady, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Steps to reproduce:
Tried installing
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/68.0/win64/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2068.0.msi
Actual results:
It installed firefox in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox without asking me for destination folder.
Removed all permissions to folder C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
and tried installing again, installer finished silently without installing anything and pinning an icon to nonexisting application on my taskbar.
Expected results:
Installer should ask me for installation folder
then ask me if I want to install maintenance service,
then allow me to choose profile folder.
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Updated•6 years ago
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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This is by design; we don't provide any UI for the MSI because it would be more or less identical to the .exe full installer, which is what we recommend using if you want to change options like install path for a single installation (you'll find those in the same directories as the .msi files).
If you do need to use the MSI and customize the install path and other options, there's instructions on how to do that in our knowledge base article about deploying the MSI.
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Also, we always recommend installing the current release, which right now is 68.0.2, because there's usually important security fixes in each update.
This did solve my issue.
I did not know that msi packages are created with different process than exe files. I create my exe setup from msi.
However I was installing 68.0, I'm not sure why BugZilla decided my browser is 61.
As a side note, everytime there is a security patch in firefox, there are some drastic other unwanted changes attached to it which gives me total headache to find a way arround them, in other word it is like going to pharmacy to buy aspirin for your headache and it is only sold together with a shovel in case you die from headache and want to dig a grave and bury yourself.
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