131054 - moz should use USERPROFILE variable instead of C:\Documents and Settings\Username in config files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12911

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Harald Glatt]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020313
BuildID:    2002031303

Mozilla should use the Windows USERPROFILE variable to get the current user
profile directory instead of checking the location of the profile directory once
and then hardcoding it into the config files... The directory would have to be
saved like the following pattern: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\mozilla and not
like C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\mozilla.

This would improve error tollerance much more. For example if Windows starts to
save the user profile into the Username.COMPUTERNAME directory instead of the
Username directory mozilla doesn't work anymore...

Using the %USERPROFILE% variable is working in all NT Systems. Windows NT 4.0,
Windows 2000, Windows XP.

I didn't know exactly to which component this bug applies... Please change that
if its wrong.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It stops working because there is a absolute patch in the profile registry.
You want a relative profile and that's a dupe of bug 12911

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

Comment 2

[Harald Glatt]

sorry for the dupe ;(