294438 - Installer should respect installed searchplugins

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123315

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Roasted]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

With each Firefox update there are some default searchplugins copied to the
searchplugin folder. The installer doesn't check if a searchplugin is present or
modified, so a user that doesn't use the default plugins has to manually search
and delete the default plugins to keep the list tight.

This is annoying since it's the only post-update user action that is necessary.
With a better approach, updating would be more transparent with retaining the
user settings.

The installer could handle this like that:
- checking by filename if a searchplugin is present
- displaying the list of present searchplugins and the ones to install
- giving the user checkboxes to decide of a searchplugin should be
copied/updated or not

This could be done with a dedicated option dialog in the custom installation
process.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Anders Conbere]

this is a dupe of 123315

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123315 ***