488464 - "Firefox settings" and "Safe mode" is not available after setting Firefox to default browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 326137

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[vipiish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8

When installing Firefox with Advanced settings and choosing NOT to set it to default browser I am able to right click on Firefox and choose "Safe mode" or "Firefox settings" but as soon as I choose to make it default browser it both renames from "MOZILLA Firefox" to just "Firefox" and "Safe mode" and "Firefox settings" gets unavailable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox
2. Set Firefox to the default browser
3. 
Actual Results:  
Mozilla Firefox changed name to Firefox in the start menu, and "Firefox settings" and "Safe mode" got unavailable when right clicking Firefox in the start menu.

Expected Results:  
-

OS: Windows XP x64 Edition Service Pack 2 English (Swedish MUI HAS been used).

Several re-installations has been done. Every uninstall was made with "Revo Uninstaller" which completely removes Firefox paths, registry paths and such.





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i686-pc-mingw32

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Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Could you attach a screenshot of the startmenu to this bug?

Comment 2

[vipiish]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you attach a screenshot of the startmenu to this bug?

Yeah, sure.


Before it looked like this:
http://i39.tinypic.com/wstsav.jpg    (Where "Firefox-inställningar" is "Firefox settings" and "Firefox felsäkert läge" is "Safe mode")

After it looked like this:
http://i39.tinypic.com/1z2ge3s.jpg   (Where "Internet-egenskaper" is the same as the properties as for IE7 (IE7 settings window will startup instead) and by the way - one more post was created under the "Start menu internet shortcut" dropdown list, as you can see in the last picture.

Comment 3

[vipiish]

Attachment: After Firefox was set as default browser - the menu.

After-picture (When Firefox was set as default browser).

Check the additional comments for a before-picture.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

What does happen when you change the default browser settings directly in the dialog Windows offers? Do such menu entries return when setting IE as default browser?

Comment 5

[vipiish]

Same thing there. In what way do you think that the entries would return? It would obviously open the IE settings since you've set IE as default browser then.

By the by, I am not currently using XP x64 anymore, this time I'm using the 32-bit XP edition and it works good setting the browser as default, no menus are disappearing. And I also found an entry about the same bug here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326137

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Good finding vipiish. That should be the identical problem. Seems like all 64bit systems are affected.