220044 - Exchanging Profiles between Win and Unix platforms still not possible

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 137006

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Migration, defect)

Description

[Thommie Rother]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917 Firebird/0.6.1+

It is still not possible to use profiles created on Moz 1.5b Win on Moz 1.5b
Linux and vice versa. prefs.js contains absolute path definitions which causes
newsserver settings to disappear. Moreover, imap settings cause some problems
when migrated.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a profile on  Moz 1.5b Win
2. "import" it into a Moz 1.5b Linux installation


Actual Results:  
Absolute pathnames in prefs.js cause problems in nntp settings (subscribed
groups are gone) and also imap.

Expected Results:  
A moz profile should be seamlesslingly usable in both "unix and win worlds".
Path information should always be relative, not absolute.

This issue was already raised some months ago, but I could not find appropriate
bugs for it ...

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

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

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

sorry. wrong bug.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137006 ***

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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Please always search before you file a bug.