1757547 - Preferences lost if Firefox is in subfolder of Applications folder

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[tom.25]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0

Steps to reproduce:

On Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 , if I move Firefox in a subfolder of my Applications folder, then my preferences are lost. It is ok if Firefox is directly in Applications folder.
I reported this bug long time ago, it was corrected but it is back again.

Actual results:

Preferences are lost.

Expected results:

Firefox should work if it is in a subfolder of Applications folder.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Preferences' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Hi tom.25,

Is this just preferences that you've changed, or all usage state? For example, are your bookmarks and history missing when you move Firefox into the subfolder?

Comment 3

[tom.25]

I confirm this is the application Firefox.app that I moved in a sub-folder of the application folder. Then I lost all my settings:

• my preferences
• my authentification for synchronisation
• my extension (Video DownloadHelper etc.)

Comment 4

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Thanks tom.25. Okay, so it sounds like this is less about preferences, and more about the entire profile folder.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

We key default profile of the location of the binary so this just sounds like us creating a new profile as expected.

Comment 6

[tom.25]

But if I set again my settings, enter my accountname/password it is ok, it works. But each time I quit Firefox and relaunch it it forget all. I have to set all my settings again.