184395 - registry.dat stores absolute Path to profile directories

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 157662

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Ralph Grewe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2.1/mozilla-win32-1.2.1-installer.exe

I created a default user Profile using the Administrator account. Then i copied
the directory of the profile to the default user directory, so that every user
which logs on the system the first time gets the default user profile with the
correct mozilla settings. This worked correct with mozilla 1.0.1 and 1.1 and i
think with the 1.2 beta, but not with 1.2.1. I found that mozilla stores the
full path to the profile directory in the registry.dat file, if i changed
c:\Documents and Setting\Administrator to %UserProfile% it worked again. So i
think the older versions of mozilla didn't store the full path in the
registry.dat file-what's the reason tha mozilla 1.2.1 does it? Is it a feature
or is it a bug?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157662 ***

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

> Then i copied the directory of the profile to the default user directory

I'm really baffled as to how this could have worked.

> So i think the older versions of mozilla didn't store the full path in the
registry.dat

No. It has always stored absolute paths in the registry.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

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