Closed Bug 50948 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

[RFE] xpi needs uninstall feature

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, enhancement, P3)

x86
All
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 7884

People

(Reporter: termite, Assigned: kmurray1115)

Details

XPI seriously needs an uninstall feature. Currently, the only way to remove a package/skin is to manually edit rdf files, which is completely unaccetable from an end-user perspective. The was being discussed on #mozilla yesterday, and one major conclusion that was reached was that apart from the obvious inconvinience, this could lead to legal action against netscape/mozilla: 1. Guy downloads a skin, say 'JenniSkin'. 2. Skin turns out to be porn. 3. Wife sees porn. 4. Wife files for divorce. 5. Guy sues netscape for not allowing him to remove the porn skin and thereby causing his divorce. Yes, unlikely, but very possible, and in the light of civil lawsuits in recent years in the US, even more so. Note that this will very likely require a change to the current method of registering chrome. I think this is critical to users, as the ability to uninstall packages of any sort is crucial in just about all cases.
Cced Todd.
Reassinging to Todd who is the XPInstall PM
Assignee: bijals → tpringle
Reassigning to kmurray, who will be install PM post 6.0.
Assignee: tpringle → kmurray
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Marking Duplicate of bug 7884. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7884 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
vrfy dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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