270171 - Uninstalling Firefox on Windows XP disturbs IE

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Ravi Kanth Chintakunta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 1.0

I had Firefox 1.0 installed and later uninstalled it. After uninstalling 
Firefox, IE is disturbed. The IE icon that appears in the address bar of IE (at 
the beginning of the URL) does not appear anymore.

Later, I installed Firefox and this resumes the explorer icon to appear in IE's 
address bar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox.
2. Use IE and see that the explorer icon appears in the address bar at the 
beginning of the URL.
3. Uninstall Firefox.
4. Use IE and see that the explorer icon disappears in the address bar at the 
beginning of the URL

Actual Results:  
The explorer icon does not appear in the address bar. Some unrecognized icon 
appears.

Expected Results:  
IE should be untouched with Firefox installation and uninstallation.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mozilla doesn't touch IE, it also doesn't such any system files.
FF only stores data in the installation directory and the user data in the OS
USer directory (c:\documents and settings\[user]\Application data\mozilla\firefox\)
FF registers itself as browser in the system (via registry) but if that would
have an effect in IE, this would be an IE bug.

-> invalid (FF doesn't touch IE)