Closed Bug 250019 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Installer does not allow installing in a non existing folder

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

x86
Windows NT
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 229343

People

(Reporter: michael.vancanneyt, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 When changing the installation location, the folder browser does not allow to specify a non-existing folder. This is not a problem if 'Firefox' would be appended to the selected folder, but this also is not done. For instance selecting c:\programs will not install in e.g. c:\programs\firefox but actually installs in c:\programs This is a problem, since de-installing effectively REMOVES all subfolders of c:\programs, including any other programs installed below this folder. It did this on my PC. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installation program. 2. Select custom install 3. Specify a DIFFERENT folder from the standard folder. No non-existing folder can be specified. 4. Continue install. Actual Results: Install is performed in selected folder. De-install removes existing folder and all subfolders. Expected Results: either 1. Install in subfolder of selected existing folder 2. Allow to specify non-existing folder. Done using official 0.9 installer.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229343 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: bugzilla → installer
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