Do not make Firefox default browser during installation

[DraconPern]

MSI for Mozilla Firefox no longers set the browser as the default on install. Also, Internet Explorer restore during uninstall has been improved. It'll now detect the location of iexplore.exe based on HKLM\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command

[jpa]

Internet Explorer restore during uninstall still isn't working correctly. When deploying 4.0/4.0.1 I still need to remove the RestoreIExplore CustomAction so that IE stays as the default browser and doesn't complain that it is not.

[jpa]

Hate to drag this thread up again but there's been a change with FF6.0.1 as Firefox is set to check if it's the default browser on startup.


To fix this create an admin install by executing msiexec.exe /a Firefox-6.0.1-xx.msi

Browse to Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref
and edit firefox.js. Change the line
pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", true);
to
pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
Save and close the file.

[DraconPern]

d'oh.. I thought I made the change... Fixed in the packager, and recreating the public packages.

[DraconPern]

Thanks! Created the new packages and they are now up. They have a new time stamp of 9/3 vs 9/1 for the old packages.