272210 - New installs delete browser plugins from previous versions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240677

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[andrew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927

System-wide browser plugins for e.g. Java, Flash, SVG etc are generally installed
into /usr/local/mozilla/plugins. During an update, the installer
recommends that it delete any existing /usr/local/mozilla and thus deletes
the plugins, which are in most cases compatible with the new install. The
administrator then has to find the various software packages and go through the
install procedure again for each plugin

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install version N of Mozilla
2.  Install browser plugins system-wide
3. Install version N+1 of Mozilla

Actual Results:  
All existing plugins are deleted

Expected Results:  
Either preserved all existing plugins, or prompted the user to back them up
and to restore them after the install process was complete

If plugins are installed in a separate directory, such as
/usr/local/mozilla-plugins, and soft links created in the same way as for the Sun
Java runtime, it becomes easier to recover plugins after an upgrade. Most plugin
packages
(those capable of finding the Mozilla directory) copy files directly into the
plugins directory though.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of "installer shouldn't delete plugins directory when removing old installs"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240677 ***