264771 - Installer deleted home directory contents

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 234479

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Chris Venghaus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1

When installing firefox, I chose to install to my home directory in order to
overwrite the previous installation in /home/user/firefox.  It detected the
previously installed version, and asked if I'd like to delete it.  After
clicking delete, it proceeded to delete the entire contents of my home
directory.  Is this something that should have happened?

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Sarah, can you check this out?  Seems really bad if it can be confirmed.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 271427 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234479 ***

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

The bug as described in comment 0 isn't bug 234479.  I'd suspect you told the
previous and new install to install to /home/user, such that firefox-bin existed
in /home/user.  If you do that, you'll hit exactly what you described with
firefox.  The suite installer won't let you install to a directory like
/home/user (bug 234741).