285724 - upgrade clobbers previous install-time prefs

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

I was prompted to upgrade from Mozilla Firefox 1.0 to 1.0.1 by the automatic
update service.

Despite being an upgrade, it wanted to do all the annoying defaults for a fresh
install:
- create start menu icons (in the default location, after I'd already moved them
to a more sensible location after the first install)
- create a quick launch icon (which I had already said no to the previous time)
- perform a standard install (thus excluding all the optional components I had
selected on the last install: developer tools and problem reporting tool)
- clobber my home page

It is ridiculous that I should have to select "Custom" install and invert most
every check box to get the existing behavior.

If a completely separate installer must be used to perform the upgrade, then it
should at least read my previous settings and default to those.

Comment 1

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter, please can you change this to enhancement.  It is definitely not a
major bug.

Please read the bug reporting guidelines
(http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html) to provide a more
useful bug report in future.

Comment 2

[Mikel Ward]

I also notice that my fonts were reverted to the defaults (Times New Roman,
Arial, Courier New, 16 pt), but don't want to reinstall to confirm.

This is a major annoyance and possibly a dataloss bug.  To trivialize this as an
enhancement is to disregard your users.

Comment 3

[Mikel Ward]

Ray: Do you run Linux and therefore not care if the installer has problems on
Windows?

For what reason do you brazenly point to the bug writing guidelines?

If you could provide some rationale as to why this is merely an enhancement,
such comments would be much better taken.

Comment 4

[Ray Booysen]

No, I don't run Linux.  My Firefox and Thunderbird Installs of of the Windows
flavour.

The reason why I pointed you to the bug writing guidlines is that "upgrade
clobbers previous install-time prefs" is not the best title for a bug. 
Something like "Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.0.1 does not select preferences" makes it
a little easier for the developers to understand what is wrong.  Also, if you
read the guidlines it would help you decide what category the bug must be filed.
 This is definitely not a major bug either an enhancement or trivial.  Because
this is unrelated to the bug please contact me on my bugzilla mail account if
you want to discuss this more. :)

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The full install update package is a temporary hack. This but won't be
applicable in future releases and we won't be making any significant changes to
this behavior in 1.0 releases.