307361 - Deer Park .app and icon does not update

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Michael Glenn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050907 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050907 Firefox/1.4

The .app name and icon does not update when upgrading from a pre-release (i.e.
Deer Park) to a release (i.e. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1). I'm not sure if this is
possible. The current setup requires the user delete the previous application
and download and install Firefox separately.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have pre-release installed (i.e. Deer Park)
2. Run updater for beta release (i.e. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1)
Actual Results:  
Application restarts as "Firefox" in menu but .app is still Deer Park with Deer
Park icon.

Expected Results:  
Application should start as "Firefox" with .app name changed to Firefox and icon
changed to standard Firefox icon.

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Not a huge deal, as mglenn notes, but should probably get fixed if possible.
FWIW, the icon *does* update on w32. (Anyone with Linux know if it changed there?)

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm almost positive this is due to the branding change and I'm inclined to
WONTFIX it.

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm almost positive this is due to the branding change and I'm inclined to
> WONTFIX it.

Note that reporter indicated that he was unsure that it would even be possible
to fix this one.

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

This is WONTFIX.  Technically, we'd also have to deal with the challenge of the
user changing the name of the folder from "Deer Park.app" to "Something
Else.app", which makes this a very painful problem to solve in general.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

It's a pre-beta release, for testing, we're not going to spend cycles on a
smooth upgrade path from pre-beta to beta/final releases.  Testers can take the
extra step.