644031 - Firefox 4 does not install a program directory in the Startup menu of Win7-64

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Hume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16

Normal upgrade from Fx 3.6.16 to Fx 4. Ran into a problem with a missing bookmarks toolbar chevron. Went to look for Safe Mode to check it out with no extensions.

No directory containing Safe Mode, despite telling Firefox I wanted an icon installed on the Startup menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade install fx4.
2. Look for program folder
3.
Actual Results:  
No program folder.

Expected Results:  
Should have been a program folder.

Told installation I did not want a desktop icon (option for Quick Launch icon not present).

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

>No directory containing Safe Mode, despite telling Firefox I wanted an icon
>installed on the Startup menu.

The folder was removed by Bug 598779.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking invalid (intended change).
Hold the shift key while starting Firefox will start the safemode

Comment 3

[Ed Hume]

"Hold the shift key while starting Firefox will start the safemode"

If I who have been using this browser since it was Phoenix 0.35 in October 2002 do not know of this trick, how should a general user know?

This follows in the tradition of Firefox, and it is a very bad tradition. The directory was easy to find and the Safe Mode shortcut was a fairly explicit parallel to Windows Safe Mode. Also, the term "Safe Mode" is fairly self-explanatory. 

I guess you guys never heard of "belt and suspenders." Microsoft user interfaces are better than this: there are nearly always many ways to do a job.

Foolish decision.