689876 - installer (updater.exe) shows 'unknown' information

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1443390

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[M van Ketel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110923 Firefox/7.0 SeaMonkey/2.4
Build ID: 20110923012712

Steps to reproduce:

Install/update my SeaMonkey 2.3.x version after notification of new version.


Actual results:

The installer started with a popup asking me to trust the installing program, but stated 'unknown', not so clear values (programname: updater.exe and publisher: unknown)


Expected results:

Programname should be something like seamonkeyupdater (or similar to firefox) and publisher shouldn't be 'unknown' but something like Seamonkey or Mozilla (or similar to firefox), or at least more clear to the user it is updating SeaMonkey to a new version!

Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

This is because the SM updater is not signed, cf.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/install-and-uninstall

Comment 2

[ipairee]

confirmed, also happened with Firefox Aurora on Windows 7.

Comment 3

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Confirmed. Note that this essentially means that properly trained Windows users will not get security updates.

Comment 4

[Ed]

It has been over a year since this was reported and "Unknown Publisher" still pops up whenever updater.exe is launched.  

Come on guys, it isn't like you have to rewrite the whole SeaMonkey project, just sign the file.

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Ed: Actually there's a good chance this will happen really soon now (really! :-). We first had to obtain a code signing certificate, which happened in Bug 736154. The signing process now needs to be integrated in the SeaMonkey build process.