289939 - everytime a software update is installed the installer sets up a new entry in the windows software list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247884

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[johannes krude]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

everytime I installed an update via the automatic update in firefox, there was a
new entry in the windows software list (thats how it is called in german. it
where you can remove software). After installing all updates since 0.92 I had I
think 5 entrys for firefox.
I deinstalled only one of them. All other entrys just showed an error and quited
when i tried to deinstall it after deeinstalling one of them (i think becasue
all the fiels are in the same folder for all versions).
I am not sure but I think this is not the case for the thunderbird update, but i
don't remember how I installed the thunderbird updates.
I think not firefox itself but the installer has to be fixed to just change the
existing software entry rather then making a new one.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install an old version of firefox
2.perform the automatic update
3.

Actual Results:  
there are more then one entrys in the widnows software list for different
versions of firefox

Expected Results:  
there  should be only one entry for the newest version you installed

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Duplicate of 247884 which has been fixed.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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