707287 - Shortcuts for native apps point to Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Apps :: Extension, defect, P2)

Description

[Mohamed Dabbagh]

The file locations for a native app on Windows all point to Firefox. If you right click a desktop icon and choose 'Open file location' it will bring up the location of Firefox. If you uninstall Firefox and then try to open file location, an error is shown stating the location does not exist and asks the user if they would like to delete the desktop icon.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox - Make sure to have FF9 or greater
2. Install the Apps extension - Can be found at http://people.mozilla.com/~dclarke/openwebapps/Extension/ and look for openwebapps-af711b2c82-12_02_2011.xpi
3. Go to apps.mozillalabs.com/appdir
4. Install an app and choose 'Install (with Native app)' - Default
5. Right click the newly created desktop icon for the app and choose 'Open file location'

Actual Results:
The location for Firefox is brought up instead of the location of the app in %APPDATA%/Mozilla (or whatever is decided as the final location for native apps on Windows)

Expected Result:
The shortcuts should all point to the location of the exe of the app and not Firefox

Comment 1

[Tim Abraldes [:TimAbraldes] [:tabraldes]]

This is expected: For the dev preview release, there is no executable for each app.  Instead, we just create shortcuts that launch Firefox with appropriate command-line args.

We can leave this open since I believe the future plan is to have the shortcuts launch a WebRT stub instead of Firefox.

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

A Pivotal Tracker story has been created for this Bug: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/24808719

Comment 3

[Tim Abraldes [:TimAbraldes] [:tabraldes]]

Each app now gets its own executable instead of just shortcuts to Firefox.exe.

This has been fixed as a result of the changes in bug 725408.