248559 - Gnome menu pointing to mozilla-1.6, not mozilla-1.7

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Torben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040622 Debian/1.7-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040622 Debian/1.7-1

Gnome menu (Application/Internet/Mozilla) is not updated from pointing to
mozilla-1.6 to point to the new mozilla-1.7.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Mozilla from the Gnome2 menu
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Get error "can not launch"


Work around is to make local menu change for the user, adding local file

.gnome2/vfolders/applications/1087627682-Mozilla.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=mozilla-1.7
Icon=mozilla.xpm
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network
TryExec=
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Name=Mozilla
GenericName=
Comment=Browse web pages

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

sounds invalid. The Mozilla installer doesn't create menu items on Linux.
If the deb version does, this bug is a Debian bug.

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Yes, this is Debian bug 255967:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255967

And it is fixed in the debain package version 1.7-2. Marking INVALID.