798805 - Firefox installer fails to register metro browser properly on 32-bit Windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 734628

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Based on some reports from testers, installing on the 32bit version of Windows 8 fails with no metro tile created.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Marking as unconfirmed until we get confirmation that the problem is indeed related to x86.  Asa mentioned he may try over the weekend. If not I'll try and then if I can reproduce I'll re-mark as New and I'll take the bug.

Comment 2

[Thomas G Eaton]

At Intel, when I install the nightly build on our 32-bit Win8 tablet (clovertrail), it doesn't create a metro tile for the metro version.  It only installs the desktop version and the metro tile created is a nightly tile that launches the desktop browser.  The same auto-installer successfully installs the metro version with a tile to launch it on our 64-bit Win8 devices.

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Thomas G Eaton from comment #2)
> At Intel, when I install the nightly build on our 32-bit Win8 tablet
> (clovertrail), it doesn't create a metro tile for the metro version.  It
> only installs the desktop version and the metro tile created is a nightly
> tile that launches the desktop browser.  The same auto-installer
> successfully installs the metro version with a tile to launch it on our
> 64-bit Win8 devices.

That's bug 798805. We haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Probably isn't anything major.

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Jim Mathies [:jimm] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Thomas G Eaton from comment #2)
> > At Intel, when I install the nightly build on our 32-bit Win8 tablet
> > (clovertrail), it doesn't create a metro tile for the metro version.  It
> > only installs the desktop version and the metro tile created is a nightly
> > tile that launches the desktop browser.  The same auto-installer
> > successfully installs the metro version with a tile to launch it on our
> > 64-bit Win8 devices.
> 
> That's bug 798805. We haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Probably isn't
> anything major.

Doh, that's this bug! :)

Comment 5

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

This ended up being because of a leading whitespace in the appusermodelid for the hash of the path C:\Program Files\Nightly.  An unrelated bug that caused problems here.