Problems with Firefox installation
I had posted my question yesterday and received a response from jscher2000. I sent a reply to the response by email a short while ago, but I wasn't sure it went through. Therefore, at the possible expense of having you receive the reply twice, I have recopied it here:
Thank you for trying to help me download Firefox onto my computer. As per your advice, I first tried shutting down and restarting my computer. That did not work. Then I went onto the link you sent me: https://www. mozilla,org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release . The installation began, but only got up to around 80 - 90%. It stopped at the point where it said Execute: "C:|Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\default-browser-agent.exe" register-task 308046B... (It looks like there might be some more letters and/or numbers after the "B", but I can't see what they are.) I waited a few more hours to see if the installation would continue, but it did not. I then went back to try downloading Firefox in the regular way. First I got a message, "Now installing. Firefox will be ready in just a few moments." Again, installation proceeded to around 80 - 90 %, and then I got a message, "Hmmm. For some reason, we could not install Firefox. Choose OK to start over." Starting over didn't help. I got the same message. Any further help or advice that you can give me would be greatly appreciated. drzee1946 email: [removed from public support forum]
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Hi, a few days ago there was a problem for some users with posting a reply in the question, but this should now be fixed, so you can continue in your thread.
- /questions/1440423 downloading/installing Firefox
drzee1946 said
The installation began, but only got up to around 80 - 90%. It stopped at the point where it said Execute: "C:|Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\default-browser-agent.exe" register-task 308046B... (It looks like there might be some more letters and/or numbers after the "B", but I can't see what they are.)
My guess is that step adds a task to the Windows Task Scheduler to check whether Firefox is the default browser. Do you possibly have any security software that might try to prevent programs from making that kind of update? Or maybe that one worked but Firefox wasn't able to do the next step. I'm not sure whether the sequence is documented somewhere so we could look into what that next step was meant to be.
If you look in
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
is there a firefox.exe file (sometimes the .exe is hidden)?
drzee1946 said
I had posted my question yesterday and received a response from jscher2000. I sent a reply to the response by email a short while ago, but I wasn't sure it went through. Therefore, at the possible expense of having you receive the reply twice, I have recopied it here:
The emails you get are to notify you of replies to your thread and is not used for support purposes. There is no support done by phone, chat or email.
To reply in your thread /questions/1440423 you scroll down to the Post a Reply box. Type in your reply and then click on Post Reply.