197628 - Option to disable 'Address Book Palm Sync' installation

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I have no PDA:

even if 'A. B. P. S.' seems to take < 100 KB on the disk (!?),

I don't want its two entries in 'Start > Programs > Mozilla' menu !


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ((custom) Install Mozilla)

Actual Results:  
'A. B. P. S.' is "allways" installed: probably because I install Mail&News !?


Expected Results:  
I'd like to be able not to install 'A. B. P. S.' (from the Components selection).

Comment 1

[Rick Carter]

I see this as necessary also. I installed mozilla, and it silently took over my
Palm conduits, causing my Franklin Planning Software to be disabled. Install
should have a way of warning about this, and allowing the user the ability to
have it *not* change the Palm conduits.

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

Rick: this bug is regarding the mozilla installer creating Start menu shortcuts
for the palm sync conduit it installs, not palm sync actually being installed
and functioning.

The mozilla installer used to launch the palm sync installer that it installs. 
It no longer does that.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401]

Bug still there.

NB: With v1.4a, the menu path is now 'Start > Programs > Mozilla > Palm Tools'.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507]

Bug still there. (with v1.3 profile, at least)

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624] (v1.4rc3)

Bug still there.

(On W2K) I installed Browser+Feedback only, and did not get the ABPS:
I believe the ABPS is currently linked to the Mail&News option...

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915] (release) (W98SE)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 SeaMonkey/1.0a]
(release) (W98SE)

Bug still there.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Henrik, as the QA for installer is this bug is assigned to the correct component?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

option presented if custom install is chosen.  But no choice given during normal install, like thunderbird trunk installer.

Comment 9

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This was essentially fixed when we moved to SM 2 (custom install, able to de-install the extension etc), however, now we've landed bug 495232 and removed palm sync completely, it is just invalid.

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

V.Invalid