287755 - Update with administrator rights incorrectly recognized

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Tim Johnson]

I just tried to update from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 using the update button. After the
file extraction phase, I got a pop-up telling me I did not have administration
rights. The account I was running under does have administration rights. 

However, thinking that Firefox might have tried an experiment to see if it could
update the registry, and failed, I went over to my Lavasoft Adwatch SE GUI, and
switched off the Automatic registry change block mode. Now if software attempts
to change the registry, I will be prompted to allow/deny the change. I then
canceled the Firefox update, and clicked the Firefox update button again.

I got the same pop-up from the Firefox updater after the file extraction. I
decided to go ahead anyway, and the update completed successfully. I had just
tried this at work with XP Pro (this report is for XP Home), which also runs
Adwatch, and didn't see the pop-up. One other difference between the no-pop-up
work machine and the pop-up home machine is that the work machine was running
from the administration account, although I had to switch off Adwatch's
automatic registry blocker there, too.

Another observation, just a nit, is the update button still appears on the new
1.0.2 Firefox until I clicked it, and no further updates were detected.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I'm unclear what the bug is that you're reporting here. Can you please provide
specific steps to reproduce, expected behavior, and actual behavior descriptions?

Comment 2

[Tim Johnson]

1. Starting with Firefox 1.0.1, click the Update button to start the install of
Firefox 1.0.2.

2. When the file extraction is complete, a pop-up was displayed informing that
this account did not have administrator rights, and advised cancel the update.

3. This was unexpected since the account I was using does have administrator rights.

Expected results: Clean install of Firefox 1.0.2.

Actual results: Pop-up informing me the account did not have administrator
rights, and advising me to cancel the update.

Note: On my second attempt, I got the same pop-up message, but I chose to
continue with the install. The installation worked properly as far as I can see.

The problem is that the Firefox installer mistakenly thought the account did not
have adminstrator right, when it fact it did.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Closing out bugs in the old style updater, which are superseded by the new system
in 1.5.