287968 - Installation does not remove past installations from "Add/Remove Program" registry

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 247884

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Jason Foo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I started using Firefox from 1.0.0 and have installed to 1.0.1 and now 1.0.2 .
All the new installations does not remove the old version from the "Add/Remove
Programs" registry. Thus according to it, I have all 3 versions installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox
2. Install newer update of Firefox

Actual Results:  
Past installation registry information not removed. New set of information added.

Expected Results:  
On successful installation, the software should have removed registry entries of
old version and replace with new entries of itself.

Happens on Windows XP SP1, XP SP2 and Win 2000 Sp1, 2000 Sp2, 2000 Sp3 and 2000 Sp4.

Not known if it will happen on others. Though in theory it should happen to all
Windows based computers due to its use of a registry.

Comment 1

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247884 ***

Comment 2

[Jason Foo]

Attachment: Screenshot of above Bug.