287485 - install of update defaults start page to firefox home page - it should default to not changing the start page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 263595

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Carl Zetie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Much as we adore firefox, few of us have a need to visit the firefox home page 
so frequently that we want it to be or start page! The default action during 
install/upgrade should be to leave the start page unchanged, not change it to 
the firefox start page. The basic prinicple of defaults should be "do no harm". 
Changing the start page by default is the kind of thing I expect from 
Microsoft, Yahoo and Real -- companies that think they own your PC -- not 
Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install any version of firefox
2. Or install any update to firefox
3.

Actual Results:  
The default installer action is to change the user's start page to Firefox, 
this is easily missed during install.

Expected Results:  
Default action should be to (i) if the user is an existing firefox user, leave 
the current start page unchanged (ii) if this is a new install, import the 
existing home page from a recognized browser (typically IE) (iii) if no other 
browser is installed, set the start page to firefox

Comment 1

[tom]

Yes, I had this problem also, update from 1.01 --> 1.02 reset my home page to
firefox default.. pc version

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Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263595 ***