wtf firefox just deletet 15gb on my disk!!!
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Why doesn't Firefox just make use of the Null-soft installer?
See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/home) - it does everything that it should, and it's license seems perfectly acceptable to me.
See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/home) - it does everything that it should, and it's license seems perfectly acceptable to me.
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I chose the custom install option and that asked me where I wanted to install, I have an install location other than Program Files (dont like the space in the path). I chose the path till the top level of this folder and it happily assumed I wanted to install to the the top level of my install folder, unlike most other program which usually put in their own program name in the path. Thats dangerous.
Couldnt the author at least put a warning or a note to users that they should provide the whole path to the new installation.
Couldnt the author at least put a warning or a note to users that they should provide the whole path to the new installation.
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dex, I'm trying to establish whether this bug only shows up when people try to specify the location for install instead of using the default. I think it only happens when people install to the wrong directory by mistake. If you installed in the default location you should be fine.
Guest above dex, I'd expect the installer to put the program in the directory I told it, no matter how bad a location it is. If I said 'put it in the top level install folder' I'd expect it to go there.
Guest above dex, I'd expect the installer to put the program in the directory I told it, no matter how bad a location it is. If I said 'put it in the top level install folder' I'd expect it to go there.
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For clarity's sake, the "bug" in question works like this (and yes, I've tested this)
If you install into a directory with files, and choose to uninstall the app, after removing the installed files, it tells you that not all files were deleted and asks if you want to delete the entire folder. If you say yes to deleting C:\program files\ I can't say I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for you.
If you install into a directory with files, and choose to uninstall the app, after removing the installed files, it tells you that not all files were deleted and asks if you want to delete the entire folder. If you say yes to deleting C:\program files\ I can't say I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for you.