| Trev67 2005-03-25, 5:45 pm |
| Leonidas Jones wrote:
> Michel Doucet wrote:
>
>
> You are missing the point.
>
> Firefox will install and run just fine without uninstalling first. You
> will not notice any issues. However, if you do not uninstall first,
> there are lingering entries in the registry that cause, most obviously,
> an orphaned listing in Add or Remove Programs. Try:
>
> Control Panel>>Add or Remove Programs. Do you see two entries for
> Mozilla Firefox? If you installed over the top of 1.0.1, you will see
> entries for 1.0.1 and 1.0.2. Keep installing over the top, and you
> could have half a dozen or more.
>
> Try uninstalling 1.0.1, as a new user would be very likely to do. You
> will actually uninstall 1.0.2, and be left with no Firefox at all.
>
> The orphaned entires are easy to clean up. There is even a tool built
> into Spybot S&D that will take care of it. The problem is for the user
> who runs across the entry in A/R, assumes an old version is still
> around, tries to uninstall and ends up removing their browser.
>
> Its not good public relations, to say the least.
>
> Lee
?? I uninstalled v1.0.1 after installing v1.0.2 (using Add or Remove
Programs) with no problems.
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