292161 - Add remove programs bug

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247884

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[jeremy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When you update Thunderbird 1.0 to 1.0.2 DO NOT delete the 1.0 program!  It will
cannabalize your 1.0.2 install as well.  It shows the two as being separate, but
the uninstaller will nuke it for good!  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install 1.0.2
2.Uninstall 1.0
3.It wipes out all instances of Thunderbird

Actual Results:  
No more Thunderbird

Expected Results:  
Deleted the old version instead, or displayed a message that it will delete new
installs.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

It's fixed, they decided not to do a thunderbird 1.0.3 solely because of this. 
I believe if you grab a latest nightly, however, it'll remove the old listings.

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