284625 - Deleted search plugins added on update

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300738

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Erlendur S Thorsteinsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When updating from Firefox 1.0 to Firefox 1.0.1 then search plugins that I had
previously deleted were re-added.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install Firefox 1.0
2.  Delete some search plugins (like Yahoo or Amazon)
3.  Update to Firefox 1.0.1

Actual Results:  
Previously deleted search plugins were re-added.

Expected Results:  
Not modify the list of search plugins installed (neither delete nor add any
search plugins when updating from a previous version).

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 284624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[u88484]

dont really know how this bug should be marked since this should be fixed onces
searchplugins and plugins is moved into the profile. Thats the reason this
happens right now because its in the main firefox directory and the folder gets
overwritten when you upgrade so whatever you delete beforehand that comes
default will be installed again.

Comment 3

[Joel Risberg]

An additional annoyance of this default search installation policy is that any
manual revisions to the affiliate code in the Amazon search plug-in
(amazondotcom.src) are overwritten by the installer during any upgrade.

Inserting an affiliate link by default is forgivable where none existed before,
but repeatedly overwriting explicit user changes with mozilla's affiliate code
feels disappointingly close to the behavior of lesser browsers and, to some
extent, spyware.

This relates to the Amazon-specific <A
HREF=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259717">Bug 259717</A> as well.

Comment 4

[Will Hinds]

The locations of the searchplugins folder causes this behavior, Bug 123315
should resolve this issue.  Mark as duplicate?

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300738 ***