294177 - Unexpected behavior of update

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Andrew Allison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Before installing 1.0.4 I uninstalled 1.0.3 and removed the Mozilla Firefox
directory in its entirety. To my surprise, and contrary to the installation
notes, all extensions and preferences (profile) were reinstalled. For what it's
worth, I have MozBackup installed. There's anothr peculiarity, which I think
belongs here: Several, but not all, my desktop URL shortcuts, and new ones
created by dragging the bookmarks icon to the desktop, no longer work unless
Firefox is open ("no association for this file")

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox 1.0.4
2. Click on desktop icon, get error
3. Open Firefox
4. Click on desktop icon, opens page
Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
Good question. Actually, having the extensions automatically re-installed
appears to me to be a good thing, but the installation notes say otherwise.
However, desktop shortcuts to URLs should open Firefox.

Comment 1

[Andrew Allison]

It appears that 1.0.4 is failing to associate any of the HTML extensions.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Andrew Allison]

Fixed in 1.5 Beta.