69715 - Obsolete information about files on Windows in Release Notes

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Olivier Mengué]

From Bugzilla Helper:

The list of files used by Mozilla on the Windows platform listed in the Release 
Notes is obsolete for already many releases.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.8/#uninstall


The registry is registry.dat instead of mozregistry.dat. It is not stored in 
the %WINDIR% directory but in the "Application Data\Mozilla" (name is locale 
dependent) in the Windows profile of the user.

The mozilla users profiles registry are stored in the Users50 subdirectory.

This description may not be accurate and is surely not exhaustive.

Comment 1

[Olivier Mengué]

This "documentation bug" is still relevant for Mozilla 0.9.4.

I'm using Mozilla 0.9.4 installed 2 weeks ago (Sep 26, 2001) on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a.
I have a "%USERPROFILE%\Données d'applications\Mozilla\registry.dat" dated of today.
However "%WINDIR%\mozregistry.dat" is dated of Feb 4, 2001. It seems that it is
outdated (probably created by an older Mozilla).
%WINDIR%\mozver.dat and %WINDIR%\MozillaUninstall.exe are dated of the latest
installadion date (Sep 26, 2001).

All this to say that "mozregistry.dat" in the Release notes of 0.9.4 is still
probably irrelevant.

The fix is to remove this file from the list at
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.4/#uninstall .

Comment 2

[Olivier Mengué]

This documentation bug doesn't seem to be interesting anyone beside myself.

However, the 0.9.7 Release Notes have still the same errors as 9 months ago...

Comment 3

[rudman]

-->jatin.

Comment 4

[Jatin Billimoria]

-->[e-mail] is currently doing 0.9.8 Rel. Notes. Dawn, do let me know
if you need any help. 

Comment 5

[rudman]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 6

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Changing keyword and URL, this still hasn't been changed.

Comment 7

[Dawn Endico]

jatin, can you take this? i've changed mozregistry.dat to registry.dat 
and added a a mac osx section to uninstall. Someone on windows should
double check the location of all these files.

Comment 8

[Jatin Billimoria]

I'll check the Windows files myself, or ask around to find out. I'll update that
section and check in. Any deadline for when this should be in? 

Comment 9

[Olivier Mengué]

OK. I verified it has been mostly corrected for Mozilla 1.0.
However information is missing about %SystemRoot%\mozver.dat and
%SystemRoot%\MozillaUninstall.exe (Windows platform)

I also suggest to better split information about files :
- "system"-based files (in %SystemRoot% and %ProgramFiles%)
- "system user"-based files such as registry.dat (in %USERPROFILE%\Application
Data\Mozilla)
- "Mozilla profile"-based files and directories (in %USERPROFILE%\Application
Data\Mozilla\[Profile name]\[random string].slt)

This information is important for system administrators that want to deploy
Mozilla on a large scale.

Comment 10

[Olivier Mengué]

Closing the bug as Release Notes for Mozilla 1.0 RC2 are ok for me.

Comment 11

[Brant Gurganus]

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