302815 - Upgrading causes preferences/Advanced/System/Images to change default application

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Michael Gordon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728

Over the last few upgrades of Mozilla 1.7.x after the installation is complete
all my image icons are changed to default to Mozilla.  Looking at
Edit/Preferences/Advanced/System/Images all the common image file types have
checks in their boxes.  Going in and removing the checks for the image file
types repairs the image file association back to my Image Editor.

This has occured over the last three upgrades in teh Mozilla 1.7 versions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place three different images on your desktop, .jpg, .gif, .png, etc.
2. Make sure these images are associated with your image editor Adobe, Paint
Shop Pro, etc. so the icons reflect the editor.
3. Download the latest version of Mozilla 1.7.11.
4. Remove the current version of Mozilla.
5. Select 'yes' to temove all of Mozilla.
6. Select 'no' to remove all the contents in the folder 'Mozilla/Mozilla.org.
7. After removal reboot Windows (XP).
8. After bootup install Mozilla 1.7.11.
9. Look at your image icons on the desktop, they are now associated with Mozilla.
10. Open Mozilla and navigate to Edit/Preferences/Advanced/System/Images and
notice all the image types have checks in their boxes for Mozilla to open these
types of image files.
11. Remove all the checks in the image format types, and close Mozilla.
12. Notice the images now on your desktop, they are all associated back to your
image editor.

This is a bad thing, I don't want Moxilla opening my images if I click on an
image file.

Actual Results:  
All my image files throughout my system reverted back to Paint Shop Pro.

Expected Results:  
During the installation of the upgrade teh installer should have left the
"Preferences" as they were in the previous installation.

I performed two differrent searches in Bugzilla for this problem and found no
references to this type of problem.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Did the change of the default application for the images already occour after
you have run the installer or did you launch Mozilla after that once and then
the default app changed?

Comment 2

[Michael Gordon]

Frank,

It is difficult for me to pin point the moment the file associations occured, I
do know they did not change durign the removal if Mozilla 1.7.10.

This is the sequence during the install of Mozilla 1.7.11.
1. I selected "Custom Install" and removed the check for Chatzilla, all other
options were checked.
2. Mozilla then continued with the installation, at the end of the installation
the Profile Manager dialog box opened as asked which profile I wanted to use, I
selected my normal Mozilla profile (unique) and Mozilla opened with the browser
connecting to the Mozilla web site.
3. Closing Mozilla revealed that all the image files on my desktop had a Mozilla
icon and were associated with Mozilla.  In addition opening Windows Explorer
showed all the image files in all folders had been changed to associate with
Mozilla.

The problem with this action is two fold, most computer users that navigate
their system using My Computer or Windows Explorer visually associate the file
icon with the program that will open and edit that file; for quick access to
editing a file double clicking the file should open the file's editor for
directly working on that file, not for Mozilla to open and display the file in
the browser.

If I had been thinking ahead of time I would have closed the Profile Manager
without selecting a profile and checked my desktop image files for a change in
association.

Michael  

Comment 3

[firemotion+mozilla]

Confirmed after upgrading to:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
- Seamonkey 1.0

Method of installation: Zip-file (unzipped everything to an empty directory, but keeping my profile intact)

Basically Mozilla steals the file associations at first start-up, which, in my opion, is:
(1. Annoying)
2. Data loss

Comment 4

[Cédric "chewey" Menge]

This used indeed to happen (using the installer as well), and annoyed me a lot.
I haven't seen this since at least SM 1.1 though, so WFM.

Comment 5

[David E. Ross]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9

This is still a problem.  Reopening.  

I have set Wordpad as the default editor of .html files.  I have also set the old Mozilla icon for .html files (the icon that shows a pinkish orange page with the top-right corner folded down and the red Mozilla head facing left with the snout extended slightly outside the page).  

Just now, I went to the menu bar and select [Edit > Preferences > Advanced > System] and selected the OK button WITHOUT CHANGING ANYTHING IN THE SYSTEM WINDOW.  Composer is now the default editor for my .html files, which now have the blue circular SeaMonkey icon.  

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Michael,

MozillaAS v1.7.x is not supported anymore.
Reopen if you can reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 (Installer).

***

FireMotion,

SeaMonkey v1.0.x is not supported anymore.
Reopen if you can reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 (Zip file).

***

David,

Please, file a separate bug:
this bug is about installation time, not "validating" the preferences time.

Comment 7

[David E. Ross]

This happens during installation.  

I just now reinstalled SeaMonkey 1.1.9.  During the installation, I received a popup asking if I wanted SeaMonkey to be my default browser.  I answered "yes".  When installation was done, the icons for .html and .htm files were changed to the circular blue SeaMonkey icons.  Worse, when I selected an .html file, right-clicked, and selected Edit from the pull-down context menu, I got Composer (even though I requested during Custom installation not to install Composer); I use WordPad as my editor.  

I believe the same operation occurs during installation for setting the default browser as occurs afterwards when changing preferences under [Edit > Preferences > Advanced > System].  

Reopening.  

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Filter "spam" on 'prefs-nobody-20080612'.)

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

IIUC, the change is triggered not so much by upgrading per se, as by requesting that SeaMonkey become the default browser.

I suggest WONTFIX.

Comment 10

[David E. Ross]

I disagree with WontFix.  

Making SeaMonkey or Firefox the default browser should apply only to browsing Web pages, not to viewing image files.  Using Windows on a PC, when I double-click on an image file on my hard drive, I want it to open in an image editor not in a browser.

Comment 11

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

FWIW, I agree with David that SM should not associate itself with image files. SM is neither a complete image viewer (like IrfanView) nor an image editor (let's ignore that extensions may provide such functionality; this is about defaults). If this is still an issue with SM 2.x, this should stop (meaning: confirm this bug). David, can you check that with SM 2.1b1? I cannot remember when I last used the installer...

If this turns out to only be an issue with SM 2.0 or earlier we should close this bug since anything older than 2.0 is not supported anymore and 2.0 itself only receives security fixes.

Comment 12

[[e-mail]]

My understanding is that 2.0 no longer associates itself with images, so from that point of view this is a WONTFIX as per comment 11.

Comment 13

[David E. Ross]

Re comment #11:  I will try it when I see a 2.1-beta version with fixes and capabilities in which I am interested.  Otherwise, there are too many differences between 2.0.x and 2.1 for me to start fussing with installing and then reverting.

Comment 14

[Phoenix]

Don't see such behavior with updates from 2.0.x and higher, proposing WORKSFORME
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111017 Firefox/10.0a1 SeaMonkey/2.7a1