Matthew pointed me to th bug 28575, which is verified a long time ago, so rather than reopen, I thought I'd make a more specific bug. Firstly, you're really talking about Netscape releases here, since Moz isn't aimed at end users and a developer is going to be very aware of where he or she installed something. But the Netscape installer will likely do what the Mozilla one does, so this is still on topic, and it can't hurt Moz. Taking a bit of background from the old bug: 2> We will have higher visibility (apparently not all Mac users are aware >of the new OS 8.5 Applicatiosn folder). Further, we want to make it as > simple as possible for users to find the Mozilla Folder. An automatic Applications folder might be new with 8.5 but the convention has existed among users since as early as System 6 (1986) If you want visibility, leave the folder open after installing. (I've no doubt Netscape marketing will want to do something appaling like sticking Netscape's icon in my dock, but hey, I know how to remove it again ;) 3> Primarily Apple software is installed in the Applications folder. That's just plain untrue! --- Anyway, new relevant information includes this description of how the Finder discovers applications: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/SystemOverview/SystemOverview/Finder/ iInformation__the_Finder.html Unless we install into the Applications folder new user accounts on a Mac OS X box won't be able to see Mozilla (or netscape) until the user happens to open our folder, which means we won't appear in any lists of applications able to open types of files etc. The question of "which applications folder" is addressed by: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/SystemOverview/SystemOverview/ FileSystem/How_the_Fil_s_Organized.html On Mac OS X we should definately be defaulting to install in Applications. On Mac OS 9 its more a matter of taste, but its now been several years and releases, the applications folder is well ingrained in the popular Mac user's concious, and we are talking about the default location... the user can change it, though on OS X a warning might be in order.

I'd like to see the `X' disappear from this bug's summary :-)

over to samir

Like samir is ever going to look at the Mac installer again :-)

Adding syd to cc: list since he 'owns' installer these days

is this a showstopper? is someone working on it? marking nsenterprise-

Giving another installer bug for OS X back to syd for possible closure as WONTFIX

No Mac OS X installer == WONTFIX

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