640989 - Cache folders are created in the roaming profile rather than the local profile

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing Graveyard :: ProfileManager, defect)

Description

[Danial Horton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 GTB7.1
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Profiles that are launched via the profile manager create the cache folders within the Roaming appdata folder instead of the local appdata folder.

launching the same profile with -p -no-remote create the cache folders in the normal location.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a profile to the profile manager app
2. Start that profile
3. Note the cache, startupcache and offline cache folders are created in the Roaming profile instead of the local profile.
Actual Results:  
cache folders are created at c:\Users\*user*\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*Profile*\ instead of c:\Users\*user*\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*Profile*\

Expected Results:  
cache folders to be placed in the same location regardless of direct launching or launching from profile manager

Comment 1

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

This appears to be a limitation in Firefox.   If you launch Firefox with a named profile (i.e., -P profilename), the cache folders get created in the local appdata folder.

If you launch Firefox with a profile path (i.e., -profile /path/to/profile), the cache folders get created within that folder (not in the local appdata folder).

ProfileManager launches Firefox using the latter method, since at some point in the future, it appears that support for -P may be removed from the product.

Marking this as WONTFIX for now.

Comment 3

[L A Walsh]

This shouldn't have been closed.

It's a dup of 517425 and it is still open.