271427 - Linux Firefox1.0 Installer deletes files under certain circumstances

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 264771

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Thomas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

Today I attempted to install Firefox 1.0 over my previous install of Firefox PR1
and lost much of my home directory. I had Firefox PR1 installed in
/home/tmbeihl/firefox . When I attempted to install Firefox 1.0 final with the
installer, after changing the install directory to /home/tmbeihl a dialog box
was displayed stating that there was already a install of firefox in the
directory that would be deleted. After clicking OK I found that all the files in
/home/tmbeihl were being deleted. I terminated the installer and have not tried
to reproduce.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
see above
Actual Results:  
I lost many of my files as I can only write to /home/tmbeihl with my linux setup

Expected Results:  
I should have firefox installed in /home/tmbeihl/firefox without losing any of
my data!

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264771 ***