188703 - Profile Conflicts With Netscape

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 107694

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Migration, defect)

Description

[Donald R. Darden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

The Profile option should be controlled by a key under /Edit/Preferences.  On
single-user machines, who needs a profile anyway?

If you attempt to create a Default User profile under Mozilla, it does not show
up under Mozilla but it does show up under Netscape.

If you delete all profiles under Mozilla, it attempts to adopt the ones under
Netscape.  But that may not be what you want, particularly if you don't want any
profiles under either Mozilla or Netscape.

The Home Page setting is easily hi-jacked by some adware, such as LOP.COM and
WFIX.COM.  It would be better if you could force a reset of the home page when
restarting and otherwise prevent adware from making a change without the user
consent.  If the user approves, then that becomes the new default setting.

If you delete all profiles under Mozilla or Netscape, you can crash the browser
when you try to use it.  The problem is taken care of when the system is restarted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

It is not recommended to use one profile with both Mozilla and Netscape, because
this may lead to problems (as you noticed ;-)

Please create a new bug report for each bug you observe. Do not describe several
bugs within one bug report.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107694 ***

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

verified