193128 - 'Preferences... > Advanced > System' always makes Mozilla the 'Default Browser'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 138997

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

My 'default browser' changes from IE (v6.0sp1) to Moz (v1.3b), even if I don't
want to,
when validating the 'Preferences' dialog, even without any change to it.

I am pretty sure that this bug was already there before v1.3b.

(The 'Preferences' component is the closest which I know of: feel free to change
it as needed.)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. (Mozilla being opened)
1. Open 'Preferences... > Advanced > System'
2. Click 'OK'
3. Start IE

Actual Results:  
IE (being configured to) displays a dialog to ask to make it the 'default browser'.
Obviously, it will do this at each start, untill it is made the 'd.b.' again.


Expected Results:  
IE should have stayed the 'd.b' all along.

At the end of the installation, I choose _not_ to make Mozilla my 'd.b.'.
This was honored at that time.

My 'Preferences... > Advanced > System' panel is set up like this:
*all 'file types': unchecked
*all 'protocols': unchecked
*'Alert me if ...': checked

I am on W2Ksp3.


"Workaround":
 *make IE the d.b. again when prompted for it :->

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507]

Bug still there. (at least with v1.3 (or v1.4a !?) profile)

Comment 3

[Andreas Kunz]

*** Bug 218434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Craig]

This appears to be the same as bug 138997.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138997 ***