319905 - Mac OS X 10.3.9 - only Admin. accounts have permission to open Firefox 1.5

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Melvyn Halbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.75C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I placed Firefox 1.5 in the Applications folder of Mac OS X 10.3.9.  I found that "Adminstrator" accounts could open it, but "Managed" accounts could not -- a window popped up saying "You have insufficient permission to open this application" (or words to this effect) even though Get Info said "Others" _do_ have "Read only" permission.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. While in an Administrator account, download Firefox 1.5.dmg; double click the disk image.  A new window opens showing graphically what to do next.
2. Drag the Firefox icon into the Applications folder as instructed by the graphic.  Double click the icon and observe that Firefox opens (you may have to do this two times before it actually opens -- that is the subject of another bug report by someone else).
3. Now switch to another user account of type "Managed", double click on Firefox icon in Applications folder, and see the window pop up saying you don't have sufficient permission.

Actual Results:  
See item 3 above.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have opened normally in the managed accounts.

There is a workaround suggested by an Apple Care representative: Temporarily change each Managed account to an Admin. account, open Firefox while logged in to each of these accounts, and then change them back to Managed; afterward they retain their ability to open Firefox at will.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Baron]

Firefox 1.5 has reached end of life (EOL), OS X 10.3 support is being phased out (Firefox 3 doesn't support OS X 10.3), and this works for me on OS X 10.4.10 so this is WOFKSFORME/WONTFIX unless you can provide Steps to Reproduce (STR) for a supported build (latest 2.0.0.x) or trunk nightly.  This is probably WONTFIX anyway unless you can provide STR for OS X 10.4 or 10.5.

Also, this isn't an installer bug as there is no installer on OS X.