Closed Bug 273736 Opened 20 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Misleading file names in Linux installer

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Installer
Version:
1.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: andrea.aime, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

If I start firefox-installer-bin instead of firefox-installer, the installation
procedure starts, but then hangs telling me that it could not open the xpistub
library... this is rather annoying, since at a glance one cannot distinguish the
real installer from the other one (a helper application?).
Changing the name of that file into installer-helper would make it more clear,
moving firefox-installer-bin into another folder (so that there is just one
executable) would make it even clearer...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
so should we rename firefox-bin to firefox-helper?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Assignee: bugs → nobody
QA Contact: bugzilla → installer
Since we no longer provide a Installer for Firefox Linux Builds, i close this bug as invalid.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
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