249056 - Most of my programs need reinstallation after installing Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 233625

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Kim Guldberg]

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

After Installing Mozilla all my non microsoft programs need reinstalling.
Putting it mildly, this bug has tested my patience to the limits 

Now that I have reinstalled most of it, I'' continue to use mozilla, but after
my next major celan up, mozilla will not be reinstalled and I'll caution others
from using it. IE might have holes, but it dosn't kill your system

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Mozilla
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
A lot of programs requre reinstalling. To name a few: Adobe photoshop,
illustrator and indesign, Ad aware, Nero, Quicktime, Winamp, ethereal, and the
list goes ever on

Expected Results:  
Non of the above

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 249091 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Charles Fenwick]

*** Bug 249095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 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
> 
> After Installing Mozilla all my non microsoft programs need reinstalling.
> IE might have holes, but it dosn't kill your system

You didn´t install Mozilla, you´ve been installing Firefox.
I´ll suggest next time you better try the coming Netscape 7.2, and stay away
from Firefox, themes and extensions, or read installation notes.

You don´t need to reinstall the programs, from what I see from your description
 Firefox has registered the MIME types, so if you open a pdf with the browser,
the pdf plugin is used in the browser, instead of starting Acrobat as standalone
application, to reverse this, Acrobat must tell windows it is responsible for
the pdf extension.
Bugzilla is for bugs, if you need tips for installing, look into the forums, or
your browser help links in the bookmarks.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

To what location did  you install Firefox?

Comment 5

[Walter K.]

Though there are not enough details here, it looks like it's a dup of bug 233625.

Comment 6

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

No response from reporter in 2 months with additional information. Marking it dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233625 ***