263148 - Installation update installs standard search plugins again

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 232638

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041004 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041004 Firefox/0.10.1

When I install a nightly build over the 1.0PR (to preserve my settings), the
setup installs the standard plugins again. So I need to delete the again from
the directory to get rid of the onces I don't use.

Also existing search plugins are overwritten! I've edited the standard google
search plugin but these changes were lost. (I changed google.com to google.nl to
get the Dutch google interface :)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove any of the standard search plugins from the directory
2. Edit an existing search plugin
3. Install Firefox over the existing copy


Actual Results:  
The standard plugins you just remove are back and the standard onces are
overwritten.

Expected Results:  
It should only the standard search plugins on a clean installation or when the
entire sub-directory is gone. Other existing options are not reverted to the
standard values.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232638 ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You should not be installing Firefox over the old version. You can delete the
entire Firefox program directory without losing any of your settings.