308195 - Firefox Beta 1 installer adds three shortcuts to the desktop

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Stephen Tordoff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Firefox Beta 1 installer adds three shortcuts to the desktop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and install Firefox Beta 1
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Firefox is installed with three shortcuts on desktop

Expected Results:  
Firefox should be installed with one shortcuts on desktop

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Maybe related to bug 302657 -> bug 245392 or bug 285537?

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe related to bug 302657 -> bug 245392 or bug 285537?

Bug 245392 is about the fact that the installer doesn't obey the user's choice
to not use shortcuts, no multiplying.

Comment 3

[Jeroen Budts]

I didn't have this issue with Beta1 but i do have it now with Beta2. The
installer created three shortcuts on my desktop, so now i have four shortcuts to
firefox, since there already was a shortcut to firefox on my desktop...

(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006
Firefox/1.4.1)

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Multiple shortcuts problem is possibly DUP of Bug 246764, if your environment is
not MS Win XP SP2.

Comment 5

[Stephen Tordoff]

Environment is Windows XP SP2

Comment 6

[Stephen Tordoff]

Seems to be fixed in FF 1.5 Beta 2