Closed Bug 663841 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Firefox Beta by default should not be installed into Release Firefox File directory

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Installer
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: Ryuji, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: regression) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

Since Firefox Beta is designed to be a beta channel and hence forever in beta, it should not install itself by default in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox" but in C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox Beta or C:\Program Files (x86)\Beta instead. 

The problem with this current default is that you may end up overwriting Firefox Final with Firefox Beta, unintentionally.  

Reproducible: Always
Blocks: 663704
Release management wants the beta to be the same as release so either that needs to change or this bug is invalid. This was caused by bug 649373
Blocks: 649373
Keywords: regression
Invalid for now, this is what we want. Product is likely revisiting it soon in a wider context though.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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