109873 - paths in profile are all direct

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12911

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Migration, defect)

Description

[Christoph.Vogelbusch]

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Hi,

I just want to point out that this is aproblem having the profile used over the
net or something. Or even when you copy the profile for some reason. (e.g. when
you copy the profile to another one for testing).

Here I use the Profile from different computers and it's no problem to point the
MOZILLA_HOME to the right place, but the profiles are defective to the computers
as all aths in prefs.js are linked directly, instead of relative links.

This should be easy to fix.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use a "old" profile
2. create a "new" one
3. complete copy the old profile to the new directory
4. deltete the old profile
5. start mozilla using the new one

Actual Results:  Mozilla isn'd finding the files because they link into the old
profile directory

Expected Results:  Should simply start

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Use relative pathnames for profile directories and
profile-relative data"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12911 ***

Comment 2

[K'Trina Medina]

Dupe of 12911 (Related bugs; 63204, 68950, 99030 and 102540)