505429 - Uninstall removed profiles/bookmarks/history/etc without checking option

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[misera]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Shiretoko, Firefox 3.1a2

My version is outdated (been abroad, finally updating..) but I just wanted to report that uninstalling the old Shiretoko install from Add/Remove programs completely removed my profiles from my regular Firefox install without checking the option to remove any of it. I wanted to keep all my settings and bookmarks. After uninstalling and restarting my computer, I clicked on Firefox and it loaded the first starting page. I checked the folders in Application Data and everything was removed besides for the new profile made on starting Firefox.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have Firefox installed with profiles/bookmarks/etc and then also Shiretoko installed.
2. Uninstall Shiretoko. 
3. Check profile folders in application data. 
Actual Results:  
Upon starting Firefox after uninstalling Shiretoko, it comes up with a new install page.

Expected Results:  
Prompt to choose which profile to start up with. Should still have all bookmarks.

3.1 version of firefox. Outdated, but couldn't find any report of it in listing. Don't know if it was fixed in newer versions, but wanted to report just in case for others.

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

There have been no other reports of this happening since this report was filed and there is no details available or that could be provided to help figure this out. Since this is works for me in my own testing and there have been no other reports resolving -> wfm