Closed Bug 255547 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Release Notes provide incomplete information for profile location in Windows

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows ME
defect
Not set
normal

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()

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: nparks, Assigned: asa)

Details

(Keywords: relnote)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+

(quote)

Firefox 0.9 now stores your user data in one of the following locations:

Windows	Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
MacOS X	~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
Linux	~/.mozilla/firefox/

(end quote)

The location listed for Windows is not applicable to Win 9x/ME.  There is no
"Documents and Settings" directory in those versions of Windows.

Win 9x/ME profile is:

\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0PR?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0?
Confirming to get on Asa's radar, he can fix or WONTFIX.
Assignee: firefox → asa
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0PR?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0PR-
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0+
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0+
Reopening.  Not fixed in 1.0 Preview "Greenlane" release notes dated Oct 12.

Firefox now stores your user data in one of the following locations:

Windows 	Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Nominating 1.0 - no risk, high gain...
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0?
dont use Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\ on windows. 
this string is language dependend.
I highly suggest using %APPDATA% instead witch points to the right folder
on my PC its C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<Name>\Anwendungsdaten
but i could move this folder to any place else if i want it

sometimes its on winnt\Profiles\... (at least on NT4)
Keywords: relnote
We'll try to make this better but it won't block the release.
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0? → blocking-aviary1.0-
obsolete?
The 3.0 release notes contain the profile location for all relevant platforms.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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