165473 - Inconsistent uninstall instructions

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 162075

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Jerry Peek]

The Release Notes "Installation" section says "Install into a new empty
directory.  Installing on top of previously installed builds may cause
problems."  For users who aren't clued in to how Mozilla is structured, this can
cause confusion.  Users who are uninstalling (before installing a new version)
probably *don't* want to remove their profile information... but users who are
completely removing Mozilla probably *do* want to remove their profile.

More confusing, the Release Notes section on "Uninstalling" seems to do
different things on different OSes.  For Linux, the instructions tell users to
remove both their Mozilla directory and their ~/.mozilla directory; this removes
both the binaries and the profile, true?  But, the instructions for Windows say
that the user should go to "Add/Remove Programs"; doing this does *not* remove
the profile, true?  I haven't looked at the Mac info, and there's no info for
other OSes (like OpenVMS).

I'd suggest dividing the uninstall directions into two parts.  The first part
should explain how to uninstall the binaries -- in preparation for a new
installation.  The second part should explain how to remove the profiles -- if
the user wants to "start clean" or wants to completely remove Mozilla.

Comment 1

[rudman]

-->endico.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162075 ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

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