2007074 - Thunderbird creates an empty "Thunderbird" folder in the home directory

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[nicolas m]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:148.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0

Steps to reproduce:

I opened Thunderbird (currently 147.0b3).

Actual results:

For the last week or so, opening Thunderbird creates an empty "Thunderbird" folder in my Linux home directory (~).

Expected results:

No folder should be created, as it always been before.

Comment 1

[Christian Riechers]

TB146.0.1, OpenSuse Linux
I can confirm this behavior. When deleting the Thunderbird folder in the home directory it will be recreated.
I'm not seeing this on Windows.

Comment 2

[poncho]

That's the end of mozregression --app thunderbird --bad 147 --good 146

INFO: No more integration revisions, bisection finished.
INFO: Last good revision: 4c95576f4aaf10be3c779dbcfcccfbcea0d6278c
INFO: First bad revision: 34f7a0ab2366ba11b7b5133dd656d83f34a71db9
INFO: Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=4c95576f4aaf10be3c779dbcfcccfbcea0d6278c&tochange=34f7a0ab2366ba11b7b5133dd656d83f34a71db9

Seems unrelated though. Maybe the second to last step is more helpful:

Narrowed integration regression window from [252560d0, 0628d206] (4 builds) to [4c95576f, 0628d206] (3 builds) (~1 steps left)
INFO: Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=4c95576f4aaf10be3c779dbcfcccfbcea0d6278c&tochange=0628d20688a326abe107d83e9075c86767b98e4a

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well, it is almost certainly something from mozilla-central, so please note down the changesets from there (Thunderbird builds from c-c + m-c)

Comment 4

[poncho]

Attachment: mozregression.log

Attached to full mozregression output. I hope it contains the information you're looking for.

Comment 5

[poncho]

Pushlog from mozilla-central for the same date:
https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=e4b3aaadb10a910e2cceb178858d6650fd7fb5c8&tochange=a7ab407c4b2f588b662a5f6f0a01ec194ddf0e2a

My guess is that it is related to the xdg changes from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yeah, surely from bug 259356

Comment 7

[Danny Colin [:sdk]]

Yes. It's related to the change upstream. They had a similar issue in bug 2001887

Comment 8

[Nathan Zachary]

I certainly agree that this was caused by the XDG changes. It was already fixed in Firefox 147.0.1:
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/147.0.1/releasenotes/