1981597 - Add installer option to not install desktop launcher

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Installer, defect, P2)

Description

[Chris DuPuis]

This bug is about the new desktop launcher described here: https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FIDE-2525

For enterprise users, we need an option to not install the desktop launcher, leaving the desktop shortcuts in place.

This should be an installer option.

Comment 1

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

:cdupuis Given this is P2 are you taking it on/assigning it?

Comment 2

[Max Christian Pohle [:/dev/max]]

Does it mean it breaks the /DesktopShortcut=false that the installer supports?

Comment 3

[Selim Şumlu]

I can't access the mentioned Jira links but I'm chipping in for a comment.

For users who has file name extensions enabled (like myself), seeing an .exe file among other shortcuts on the desktop is aesthetically unpleasant. And seeing a new .exe file out of nowhere might be worrisome too.

We might need an option to disable this for regular users as well, not just enterprise users.

Comment 4

[Duncan McIntosh [:dmcintosh]]

(In reply to Selim Şumlu from comment #3)

For users who has file name extensions enabled (like myself), seeing an .exe file among other shortcuts on the desktop is aesthetically unpleasant. And seeing a new .exe file out of nowhere might be worrisome too.

We might need an option to disable this for regular users as well, not just enterprise users.

I agree it doesn't look great if you have file extensions enabled.

If you're installing Firefox, you can use the full installer from the 'Download options and other languages' link from the homepage, which will use a traditional desktop shortcut. Only the 'stub installer' from the homepage will ever replace the shortcut with a launcher EXE.

If you've already got a launcher, we don't have a great flow right now; if you go to Firefox' installation folder and make a shortcut to firefox.exe manually then it should work as usual.