388605 - firefox 2.0.0.5 upgrade broke default web browser setting on MS-Windows XPSP2

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Perry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5

Checked bugs filed today and don't see this bug
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&changedin=1&chfield=%5BBug+creation%5D

Tried to check all bugs, but it never gave back a list
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox

Checked hotlist and searched for "default" and don't see this bug
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/duplicates.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Application%20Suite&product=Firefox&format=simple&sortby=delta&reverse=1&maxrows=100&changedsince=14

Searched bugzilla for "default browser" from new bug page
 No search results (or search results grid) appeared.
 Either it doesn't work, or there were none found.



I just updated from Firefox 2.0.0.4 to Firefox 2.0.0.5
I logged in as local admin on my XPSP2 box to do so
Now I've logged back in as my regular user

The first time I invoke Firefox 2.0.0.5, I get this message box:

"Firefox is not currently set as your default browser. Would you like
to make it your default browser?"


It was set as my default browser before I upgraded, so apparently
the upgrade broke/lost that setting.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set web browser as default on a machine with Firefox 2.0.0.4
2. Upgrade using firefox builtin upgrade to 2.0.0.5
3. Test
Actual Results:  
I don't have a machine on which to reproduce.

Expected Results:  
I don't have a machine on which to reproduce.

I don't have a machine on which to reproduce.

Comment 1

[Perry]

Full bug list finally finished. Other bug reports involving default browser are (and none of these duplicate this):

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317190
    Change "Check Now" to "Set Firefox as the default browser"

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327069
    FF not giving up status as default browser : uninstall causes IE not to work

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363313
    Default Browser
     (not a very good summary)
     I suggest changing that summary to:
       "After making FF2 default browser, cannot access IE6"

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247869
    Install as Administrator, run as User: can't change default browser

Comment 2

[Alan Thomas]

Closing this bug. It was never able to be verified, and things have moved on from Firefox 2.

If the problem still exists, please say so, and re-open the bug.