229206 - Pull pre 0.8 Firebird builds from ftp servers

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031207 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031207 Firebird/0.7+

The current beta version of the 0.8 Firebird installer is causing big data loss
on users PCs.
Please check bug #228672 for a description

This bug is about pulling all pre 0.8 installer builds from the ftp servers, to
stop the data loss on the users PC.

Some users loss years of work, just because they tryied the 0.8 nightly as
sugested in the Mozilla Firebird Forums.

There is no warning about this bug in the original 0.8 forum thread and it gives
Mozilla.org a really bad reputation.

There are simple solutions to be implemented in 0.8, refer to bug #228672

Meanwhile, users should not be allowed to download this builds

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

These are testing builds and stuff like that happens when using testing builds.
-> INVALID

Comment 2

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

Removing self from CC list.