291155 - If both firefox and mozilla-suite are installed, and apt/synaptic updates firefox, /usr/bin/moz* (for moz*-1.7.6) is replaced by moz*(for firefox). The result is that mozilla-1.7.6 will no longer launch.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Al Kroeger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2

I prefer mozilla-suite, as its functionality is, in my opinion, superior to the
separate firefox/thunderbird installations.  At the urging of some fellow Fedora
Forum members, I decided to at least try firefox and thunderbird again.  I
continued, however, to use moz-suite as my preferred browser/mail agent.  
This morning, I ran apt/synaptic to update my system.  I noticed that an update
to firefox was among the packages to be updated.  I didn't give any thought to
it at the time.
When synaptic finished, I tried to launch mozilla from my desktop launcher, and
nothing happened....no error, nothing.  I attempted to launch it from
command-line.  The curser blinked a couple of times and returned to the $prompt.
I un-installed firefox, after some thinking about this, and re-installed
mozilla-1.7.6 with the -force option, and now mozilla-1.7.6 suite works.  
The good news is that I didn't lose any of my settings.
If I should temporarily lose sanity, and try firefox again in the future, I will
at least know not to allow updates to firefox while I still have moz-suite
installed.
owa

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install firefox
2.update firefox with apt/synaptic
3.try to launch mozilla

Actual Results:  
mozilla failed to launch.  Checked the properties of moz* in /usr/bin and found
the time/date to be from approx. the install time of firefox update.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I'm tempted to resolve this invalid. Don't you think this is rather a problem
how the apt/synaptic people package Mozilla and Firefox? 

Comment 2

[Al Kroeger]

It could very well be a result of how apt/synaptic programs the updates/rpm
packages.  A thought on this line, however; Does Mozilla have the capability to
prompt the user to name Mozilla or Firefox as the default browser e.g. IE6?  If
that could be programmed, the user could control where and how rpm/updates might
be applied.  Just a thought, for what it's worth.
Thanks,
owa

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Ok, invalid, talked to some dev. You want to file your bug under
https://bugzilla.redhat.com again :) (you can copy your bug comment if you want).