308349 - FF 1.5b1 shows up as version 1.4 in WinXP "Add/Remove Programs"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Marc Randolph]

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

Installed FF Beta 1 on a new XP machine.  While going to uninstall Opera,
noticed that the entry for Firefox reads:



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox Beta 1
2. Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs

Actual Results:  
3. Observed "Mozilla Firefox (1.4)"

Expected Results:  
Should see "Mozilla Firefox (1.5)"

It can't be expected that an end user will remember in a few months that there
was no official 1.4 release.  If someone had installed 1.5 on a machine, they
may accidently remove it sometime later, not realizing that it is their current
browser.

Comment 1

[Marc Randolph]

Hmmm... considering that the user-agent still says 1.4, the add/remove programs
behavior isn't all that surprising.  Leaving this bug open for the moment since
I couldn't quickly locate a bug to track changing the user-agent to 1.5 before
the final release.  

If someone knows of one, this is a dup (and apologies in advance).

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

For better or worse, the beta has a version number of 1.4 internally.  Resoving
invalid.

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

*** Bug 309058 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***