659316 - If you choose to delete files when uninstalling nightly build, it deletes the profiles for other installed firefox versions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 432017

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[David Jameson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

I normally use firefox 4 but I installed the nightly build to test a bug. After testing, I uninstalled nightly and chose the option to delete the files associated with it. However after opening up firefox 4 I discovered that it had actually deleted all my bookmarks and history for firefox 4 as well!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install firefox 4
2. install nightly
3. uninstall nightly and choose to delete files


Actual Results:  
It deletes your firefox 4 profile.

Expected Results:  
It should not delete your firefox 4 profile.

Perhaps this is the expected behaviour. If so, the uninstall message needs to be changed because currently it strongly implies that it just deletes the files associated with nightly (it says something along the lines of 'you may want to keep the files if you plan to install another version of nightly in future'). I didn't plan to install another version of nightly in the future so I assumed (apparently incorrectly) that I should let it delete the files.