388718 - StartMenuInternet not set for non-admins

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 220865

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

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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

When making Firefox the default browser, it will set StartMenuInternet to FIREFOX.EXE under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet. Obviously, non-admins can't edit that value. The value will be IEXPLORE.EXE, assuming an admin account hasn't set the default.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox, make sure StartMenuInternet is IEXPLORE.EXE
2. Do not run as admin, run in non-admin and make FF default.
Actual Results:  
Attempts to write StartMenuInternet in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and fails.

Expected Results:  
Should have written HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet, Clients doesn't exist by default in HKEY_CURRENT_USER but if you use the same structure found in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE it will read it first. It isn't necessary to recreate IEXPLORE.EXE and FIREFOX.EXE subkeys under HKCU StartMenuInternet.

I think that when under an administrator account, Firefox should not be made the global default. What if another admin wants another default browser? Be there a special button or something that only an admin can press to make it a global default.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

there is a windows limit on default browser, see Bug 220865

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup