544163 - Installation on Mac OS X should be improved/automated

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 516362

(Core :: General, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Christian Lindemer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100203 Minefield/3.7a1pre

As it stands, the released versions of Firefox and Thunderbird for Mac OS X rely on the user to perform installation manually - by dragging the application bundle to the final location.  This process should be automated.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Download Firefox (or Thunderbird) and note that disk image opens.  Double-click application, and it will run from the image.  Add to dock, and all future launches will run from disk image, thus slowing apparent application launch time. 


Expected Results:  
Mozilla projects should offer to install themselves if run from a location other than the /Applications or  ~/Applications folders or subfolders thereof.

It seems like something small, but believe me that there are many users out there who do not complete the installation properly.  From the general tenor of what I've been reading, people are already on board.  I just want to formalize the feature request and submit my intention to complete it.

There is some pre-sxisting discussion here [ http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/56e68e2ba26c3e99 ] with some additional links for further reading.

A proposed mock-up/flow-chart is here [ http://files.me.com/dethbunny/ss0s8t ].

Comment 1

[Christian Lindemer]

Attachment: UI suggestion, feature flow chart