238936 - firefox forces population of win98 registry with default browser IE

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Galen Thurber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

when firefox is run it forces this key to be added
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Desktop
the key is populated with values for default browser that point to IE


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Desktop from registry
2. run firefox 0.8 win32


Actual Results:  
registry now repopulated with IE default browser
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Desktop


Expected Results:  
not created this key or allowed keys to be set to firefox as default browser

Comment 1

[Galen Thurber]

found a fix.

edit the win98 registry [regedit]
search for key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Desktop
then remove the gopher sub keys.
Now clicking on a link in Thunderbird will open firefox.[at least for now]

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Desktop is used to back up the registry keys 
that Mozilla/FF/TB store, so that if the user decides to uninstall, those keys 
can be restored.  This is not a bug.

Comment 3

[Galen Thurber]

Disagree.