Closed Bug 230922 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Firefox should have sane defaults for set as default browser

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 216432

People

(Reporter: mconnor, Assigned: mconnor)

References

Details

(Keywords: conversion)

From bug 216501, we don't want to steal images, or other unsuitable filetypes. Also need to ensure that the prompt to set as default browser follows the same process. Possible solution is to modify winhooks to use a set of Mozilla prefs to determine what the "set as default" action from either the prefwindow or the dialog will set. This seems like the most sane option for sharing the information, and allows for customization on an embeddor or end-user level. It will also avoid the need to #ifdef winhooks any further.
*** Bug 230921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See also: bug 131106, same bug for Seamonkey bug 216501, Ability to pick and choose file associations when setting as default browser (WONTFIX)
Is this prefs code shared with Seamonkey? If so, this is a really easy fix.
this "prefs code" doesn't exist yet, I haven't looked at the relevant bits in winhooks yet to determine what all needs to be done, however changing anything in winhooks will require fixing seamonkey to use the new interface too
In that case, we should take the opportunity to fix bug 160896, which will solve all sorts of problems.
that's nontrivial, timeless is working/planning on building a better winhooks, but that won't be ready in time to fix this bug that way
Adding dependency on bug 131106 It is filed for seamonkey, and the status whiteboard says 'firebird 0.9', and has been taken by Ben, so its reasonable to assume it will be fixed for both browsers.
Depends on: 131106
Summary: Firebird should have sane defaults for set as default default browser → Firebird should have sane defaults for set as default browser
Keywords: conversion
Summary: Firebird should have sane defaults for set as default browser → Firefox should have sane defaults for set as default browser
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216432 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
that wasn't such a good assumption... removing that dependency, and also the bug that's been duped.
No longer blocks: 216432
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
No longer depends on: 131106
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → preferences
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