Open Bug 1757726 Opened 4 years ago Updated 4 years ago

Difference for profile creation between the interface and the command line

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

defect

Tracking

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: adrien.rybarczyk, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I compared the differences between creating a profile via the command line and the profile creation interface.

Some operations are allowed on one side but not on the other and in both cases.
But the bad behavior is the command line behavior.

Actual results:

For command line use:

Impossible to create a profile containing a space
-CreateProfile "TEST TEST" -> does not work

Possibility to create a profile containing special characters that cause problems in file systems (example: / and )
-CreateProfile "TEST\TEST" -> works
This will create the profile in the root of the Profiles folder. So if you ever delete it via the profile selection interface, it will delete the whole Profiles folder.

Expected results:

That the command line usage has the behavior of the interface usage.

Component: Account Manager → Startup and Profile System
Product: Thunderbird → Toolkit
Version: Thunderbird 91 → unspecified
Severity: -- → S4
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