760023 - Firefox default browser option from installer and preferences does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

1. Set FF as the default browser
2. Click on the mail button in Yahoo Messenger (right top)

Actual results:
IE opens the mailbox

Expected results:
FF should open the mailbox

Note: I'm also not able to set Google Chrome as the default browser

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

You have to set FF as the default browser at install time through the windows popup or control panel.  I think we have to remove the prompt and ability from the UI in Win 8 and beyond.

Comment 2

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

On a new win8 RC machine I set the the default browser checkbox on in the installer, and also manually tried to set the default browser in options.  Firefox thinks it is the default browser, but if I invoke a URL inside the Run dialog (Start menu button + R), it invokes the URL in Internet Explorer.

This UI is no longer functional in Windows 8 (even for Desktop) and should be removed or replaced with an option that invokes the control panel equivalent. 

I would like someone to independently verify my claims from this comment though before we start disabling UI.

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

reference:
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/8-changing-default-web-browser-141244

Comment 4

[Théo Chevalier]

(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #2)
> I would like someone to independently verify my claims from this comment
> though before we start disabling UI.

I freshly install Win8 RC on my laptop, and I confirm:

Installed lastest Nightly, checked the box "Set Nightly as my default browser" > the pref is set to true, but the links in other apps are opened with IE.

Comment 6

[Paul [pwd]]

Why are we duping old bugs to new bugs if the new bugs have no patches?

Comment 7

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

The work is being handled here, and there are patches in the bugs tracked by this bug. Duplicates should be marked even if there are no patches by the way.  

I generally dupe to the older bug, but when a newer bug happens to have better info or makes more sense in the current context, I dupe to the newer bug.

Comment 8

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Can this and bug 760694 be closed out?