Closed Bug 689876 Opened 13 years ago Closed 4 years ago

installer (updater.exe) shows 'unknown' information

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

x86
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1443390

People

(Reporter: mvketel, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110923 Firefox/7.0 SeaMonkey/2.4 Build ID: 20110923012712 Steps to reproduce: Install/update my SeaMonkey 2.3.x version after notification of new version. Actual results: The installer started with a popup asking me to trust the installing program, but stated 'unknown', not so clear values (programname: updater.exe and publisher: unknown) Expected results: Programname should be something like seamonkeyupdater (or similar to firefox) and publisher shouldn't be 'unknown' but something like Seamonkey or Mozilla (or similar to firefox), or at least more clear to the user it is updating SeaMonkey to a new version!
This is because the SM updater is not signed, cf. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/install-and-uninstall
Whiteboard: [DUPEME]
confirmed, also happened with Firefox Aurora on Windows 7.
Confirmed. Note that this essentially means that properly trained Windows users will not get security updates.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
It has been over a year since this was reported and "Unknown Publisher" still pops up whenever updater.exe is launched. Come on guys, it isn't like you have to rewrite the whole SeaMonkey project, just sign the file.
Ed: Actually there's a good chance this will happen really soon now (really! :-). We first had to obtain a code signing certificate, which happened in Bug 736154. The signing process now needs to be integrated in the SeaMonkey build process.
Depends on: 736154
Whiteboard: [DUPEME]
Depends on: 537324
Depends on: 1438084
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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