247708 - FireFox dosn't remove old version numbers from Add/Remove Programs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 247884

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Robin Monks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

When installing a new version of FF the old version number is still displayed in
Add/Remove Programs in the control panel.

This happen for me when I went from Nightlies to RC1 then from RC1 to 0.9

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install an old firefox nightly
2.intall the new 0.9
3.look in add/remove programs in you control panel

Actual Results:  
Both of the versions show in add/remove programs

Expected Results:  
Removed the old version info from add/remove first, then upgraded.

I believe this could cause trouble in the future with Windows XP and if
continued could place many firefox's in add/remove

Comment 1

[Phil Randal]

Thunderbird behaves the same way.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

you need to uninstall the old version first.  Uninstallation of previous
versions is planned but not implemented, see the release notes.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247884 ***