292057 - Installer creates different entries in "Add/Remove programs" list for each version installed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 247884

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Rodrigo M. Fombellida]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3

When you install firefox without uninstalling previous versions, installer
creates a new entry in the "Control Panel" option "Add/Remove programs". So you
have a reference to uninstall every Firefox version you have installed (1.0.1,
1.0.2, 1.0.3,...), nevertheless, currently you only have one version installed,
the last!
I propose installer should replace old entry in "Add/Remove list" instead of
creating a new one when you are upgrading to an upper version.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install a Firefox version (e.g. Firefox 1.0.1)
2.Install a newer Firefox version (e.g. Firefox 1.0.2)

Actual Results:  
Look at "Add/Remove programs" list to check there are two entries for Firefox
but the newer upgraded the older.


Expected Results:  
I propose installer should replace old entry in "Add/Remove list" instead of
creating a new one when you are upgrading to an upper version.

I submmit this bug because non technical Firefox users have reported me that
this creates confussion: they don't know if the older versions of Firefox are
already installed on their systems wasting disk space unnecesarily.

Comment 1

[u63580]

This is fixed on the trunk.

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