392005 - Firefox tries to update itself on an account without admin rights

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 383518

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Adrian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
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 a new Firefox build is released browser eventually starts to automatically download it and install it. I am normally using my non-admin user account and, of course, the installation process will fail. The problem is that even if I go to my admin account and install the new Firefox build, on my non-admin account every time that I start Firefox it will still try to update itself and then produce a message saying that it has failed. After I click Ok on the message the browser will open (in the about box it says that it is the newly updated version of Firefox).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Firefox as a non-admin user
2. A newer version is released on Firefox site
3. Run Firefox
4. Run "Check for updates" in the Help menu. This is optional, since after a while Firefox will do that itself, but just in case you want to speed things up...
5. It will say that a new version exists and should it download and install it; say yes
6. It notifies you that a newer version is downloaded and that it will update after Firefox is restarted.
7. Close Firefox
8. Run Firefox
9. You get a message with a progress bar saying that the software is updating itself.
10. You get a message that the instllation failed and informs you to check if you have appropriate permissions.
11. Log off
12. Login as admin
13. Repeat the steps to update the new release. It will update successfully.
14. Log off
15. Login as non-admin user that initially started the update (step 1).
16. Run Firefox
Actual Results:  
It will notify you that it tries to update itself and after a while you get the same message from step 10.

Expected Results:  
Firefox (new version) opens normally.

The only way to fix it (as I found) is to give my non-admin account admin priviliges and then run Firefox again. It will "update" itself and then the problem will not appear again (until the next build release).

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

will be fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.7