290385 - Installer crashes if user has "Pearson Prentice Hall's TestGen" installed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[kevin metcalf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If a user has installed the "Pearson Prentice Hall's TestGen" softwear, it adds
some stuff to the /Library/Internet\ Plugins/ directory.  When the Firefox
installer gets to that, it croaks.  The files in question all have the phrase
"TGEQ" in them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the TestGen software.
2. Try to install firefox
3.

Actual Results:  
Bouncing Icon and not much else.  No real good feedback, either.  I had to check
the console to get some information, and only the malloc_error_malloc was returned.

Expected Results:  
Just ignore these files in the folder, and the installer should work OK.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** Bug 290386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Kevin, does this still happen with Fx 1.5?

Comment 3

[kevin metcalf]

Hi Samuel,
I've put a call into the user who had the initial problem.  He isn't sure he still has a copy of the software, but he's trying to track one down for me.  I'll post if I get a copy of it and can test!

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> incomplete - missing feedback if this was reproducible on newer releases (comment #3)