186319 - MS patch 810649 causes error in Add/Remove Programs

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tony Tovar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

MS released patch 810649 to allow 3rd-party browsers to handle additional tasks
which IE normally handles, e.g. Windows Help, Add/Remove Programs.  But, after I
installed it (and rebooted), I saw the following error message when I tried to
load Add/Remove Programs -> Set Program Access And Defaults, 
"Can't move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a
type that does not accept the focus. res://appwiz.cpl/listbox.htc  Line:457"

It appeared to be a cosmetic error, however, as I was able to click OK and continue.

I reset the default browser to IE, then reloaded Phoenix and told it to
re-assert itself as default browser.  Windows Help continues to use IE...

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Tony Tovar]

Attachment: screenshot of error message

(posting a screenshot of the error message)

Comment 2

[Sébastien Delahaye]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030313
Phoenix/0.5

Reporter, are you still seeing this with the latest nightly and a new profile?

Comment 3

[Tony Tovar]

I'm unable to reproduce it.  I think MS released a 2nd instance of this update,
so maybe they're aware of the problem with the initial version.

Comment 4

[Sébastien Delahaye]

v.