299503 - Installer extracts files and verifies but does not start the rest of the installer

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Teen0724]

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

Firefox will download and extract/verify, but then will not begin the installer.
No files can be found on the hard drive relating to FireFox (besides the
downloaded installer.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Firefox Installer.
2. Run Extracter/Installer, Extracter is displayed
3. Installer never appears

Actual Results:  
The installer never appears, no Firefox files were installed on the Hard Drive.

Expected Results:  
Installed the Program.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

It is not clear what version you mean. 

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299449 ***

Comment 3

[spunkmeyer]

I ran into this bug too.

Tested with Firefox 1.5b1

Windows 98 version 4.10.1998 (1st edition) fresh install with only the drivers
installed. Then used IEradicator2001a.exe to get rid of Internet Explorer.

Always reproductible.

1. Run the setup program

The small XX% Extracting window appears, and completes.
Then the message "Verifying integrity of archive, please wait..." appears and
promptly disappears.
Then... nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens, the installer dialog windows never shows up.

However a truncated logfile is left at %TEMP%\ff_temp\install_status.log (i
guess it's not complete because there is a "Start Log" at the beginning and no
"End Log" at the end).
I have attached the file.

Sambe behavior is observed with the setup progams of Firefox 1.0.7 and
Thunderbird 1.0.7.

The person who marked this bug as a duplicate of bug 299449 is wrong, these two
bug have nothing in common.
Someone please change the status of this bug to confirmed.

Comment 4

[spunkmeyer]

Attachment: logfile left in %TEMP%\ff_temp\

Comment 5

[spunkmeyer]

I have tried another fresh install of Windows 98 4.10.1998 with only the drivers
installed but this time i didn't used IEradicator : same results as comment #3.

Instead i installed Internet Explorer 6 SP1 then tried again the Firefox
installation program : it worked and installed just fine.

My guess is that the Firefox and Thunderbird installers relies on some version
of a Windows component installed or updated by the Internet Explorer
installation program.

It would be nice to know which component is necessary for the Firefox
installation to run instead of being forced to install IE before fx on those
"naked" Windows 98 installations.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Benjamin, I reopen this bug due to it's still happening for win98 installer
builds while other OS don't show this issue. I had a discussion in the german
newsgroup and like comment 3 already tells us, he was able to reproduce it with
different language builds of 1.0.7 (de-DE and en-US).

Comment 7

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This doesn't affect the NSIS installer which has been in use since Firefox 2.0.

Resolving -> WONTFIX as it applies to fixing this bug for Firefox 1.5 since
that is what this bug is about.