870348 - 'helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppUser' trigger UAC

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Marco Gaiarin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130417085609

Steps to reproduce:

I'm using Windows 7 Professional in my organization, and i was used on Windows XP to run on netlogon script, for all users, the command:
  helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppUser
to setup TB as default application for current user.


Actual results:

This command triggers UAC, and ask for administrative account, while i need only to setup a local user account setting; if i provide administrative credential, clearly the helper.exe program run as administrative user and so does not modify current user default browser.


Expected results:

In FF (17esr) running:
 helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppUser
does not trigger UAC and effectively FF is setup as default browser for that user.

Comment 1

[Marco Gaiarin]

I've just upgraded to TB31, and still this bug is here.

If i run:
  helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppUser

nothing happens, while if i choose from TB to check if is the default app, the correct key appears under \\HKCU\Software\Classes.

Comment 2

[sand123]

Confirm bug in latest stable Thunderbird - UAC triggered

Comment 3

[Marco Gaiarin]

Only to make a note: this bug is still here in TB68; seems that there's any more a UAC trigger, but does nothing (eg, Thunderbird are not set as default).

Comment 4

[Marco Gaiarin]

Sorry, forgot.

Because 'helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppUser' will not work anyway in Win10 (seehttps://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/installer/windows/installer/Helper.html) , probably this bug can be closed DONTFIX. ;(