I don't know how it's supposed to work, but I've never had a problem
with it since the 3.x days.
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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
On 10/29/2018 11:17 PM, Andrew J. Buehler wrote:
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On 2018-10-29 at 17:37, Felipe Gomes wrote:
We investigated this issue on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502188
The conclusion there was that these reports were probably using
setup.exe to update Firefox. In short, if Firefox updates itself,
it keeps the distribution dir. If someone uses setup.exe to
install a new version, that's called a "pave-over" install that
deletes that dir.
Hmm. I'm surprised to see discussion of using setup.exe to update
Firefox; last time I remember researching the subject, IIRC the
documentation said that installing directly over top of an existing
install was not guaranteed to work properly.
For installs at my workplace, I have a setup in place which explicitly
uninstalls the existing Firefox install first (using the installed
uninstaller EXE), then installs the new one in its place (using
setup.exe). That has some side effects in some circumstances, but is the
most reliable solution I've managed to devise to date, and has been
working for some years now.
Are in-place install-over installs now expected to work reliably,
without unsupported issues?
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Andrew J. Buehler
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