Closed Bug 438908 Opened 18 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Searching for previous installations on a networked drive takes forever

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Installer
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: bruce.ingalls, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 It's nice that Firefox setup searches for previous installations. However, if it is installed from a (large) networked drive, you should warn the user that Setup may be tied up for more than 10 minutes, while searching. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy Firefox installer to a windows networked drive, say z:\, with over 40G 2. Run z:\setup.exe 3. Follow prompts, up through standard installation 4. wait 5. wait some more Actual Results: Closed install program out of impatience. Ran better from local drive Expected Results: Warning that install could take more than, say, 10 minutes would help.
Was the message displayed during this time "Checking existing installation"? If not, what message was displayed? Did you have a previous installation on the network drive?
Resolving -> Incomplete due to no answer to comment #1. Please reopen if you can provide answers to the questions in comment #1
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Sorry, I no longer have access to a windows network. This sounds appropriate, however. If you can get such an environment, you should be able to see this. I recall that this was for a new installation.
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → FIXED
Resolution: FIXED → WORKSFORME
Resolution: WORKSFORME → INCOMPLETE
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