1641439 - Creating a new profile by name trailing a white space will fail, but directory was created

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 358499

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

Reproducible: since Firefox20

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Start firefox.exe -p
2. Click [Create Profile...], Click [Next]
3. Input "foo " without quotation marks
4. Click [Finish]
5. Observe your profile directory (C:\Users***\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles)

Actual Results:
A error dialog pops up at step 4.

Profile couldn’t be created. Probably the chosen folder isn’t writable.
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIToolkitProfileService.createProfile]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/profile/createProfileWizard.js :: onFinish :: line 239" data: no]

"****.foo" directory created as expected, but not listed in the Profile Manager

Expected Results:
Successfully created with trimmed name.

Regression window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=0d373cf880fd&tochange=d7841347b558

Suspect: 964fe8cb452b24a04957c529de4c43c0adcdd529 Richard Newman — Bug 808263 - Write profile creation time to the profile on creation. r=Mossop

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:mossop, could you have a look please?

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