288310 - Upgrading Firefox overwrites user-set preferences for desktop, start menu and taskbar quick-launch.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 245392

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[dfgies]

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

If performing a version-upgrade through the auto-update mechanism, the installer
does not detect that the user has moved/remaned/deleted Firefox's default
Desktop Icon, Start Menu Groups, and Taskbar Quick-Launch Icon, and then
recreates all of these.
If the user never wants desktop and quick-launch icons the upgrader should
recpect instructions given to the original installation.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install Firefox (any out-of-date version) and tell it to not create desktop
icons or a quick-launch icon or a start menu group.
2.  Upgrade Firefox, either through the auto-update or by downloading the
installer manually.
3.  Be annoyed that Firefox cluttered-up your clean desktop, taskbar and start menu.

Actual Results:  
Firefox upgrader creates the icons and groups mentioned.

Expected Results:  
It should have remembered instructions given to the last installer, rather than
forcing each minor upgrade to re-enter all installer configuration data.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Isn't this just bug 245392 ? Or do you want to point out that the installer
should write the decision in the register, so that a later installation or
upgrade can find it back ?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245392 ***