171997 - about:profile or something similar is needed to tell the location of current profile

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223169

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement)

Description

[tironsi]

Seeing as roaming profile is not implemented yet, I find it useful to copy my
own user.js, bookmarks.html, cookperm.txt, etc., files into the default profiles
on each computer I use at school. Although there are default paths specified,
sometimes the administrators change that. Add to that the fact that across
different platforms, paths are different, and it becomes really irritating
trying to guess where the profile data is located. I don't know if there is a
way to find that out currently, but since I couldn't find it, it means it is a
tad obscure. about:profile would also be obscure (unless well documented), but
it would be better than nothing.

Comment 1

[tironsi]

Apparently you can gather the path from about:config, but again not as evident.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

-> networking, where about: bugs do belong

Comment 3

[benc]

-> profiles

only about: bugs that relate to the protocol handler itself belong here.

hooking up content and making it work belongs to the relevant component.

Comment 4

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

dupe of 223169 ?

Comment 5

[tironsi]

bug #223169 is a newer bug than this one, more features but necessarily better

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

although we normally dupe newer to older, the newer one in this case is more
coherent and fixable, IMO

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223169 ***