244928 - Windows 95 User preferences are stored in the wrong folder

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[S.Brooks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.50  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

Under Windows 95 user preferences are stored in c:\windows\mozilla instead of 
under c:\windows\application data\mozilla.

When users upgrade all preferences are lost!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla under Windwos 95
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
user preferences are stored in c:\windows\mozilla instead of under c:
\windows\application data\mozilla

Expected Results:  
user preferences should be in c:\windows\application data\mozilla as they are 
for other win9x versions

Comment 1

[Andrew Turnbull]

I have used Mozilla 1.5-1.7.3 and Mozilla Firefox 0.8-1.0 extensively under
Windows 95, and although profile information is indeed stored in the
c:\windows\mozilla\ folder on this platform rather than the
c:\windows\application data\mozilla\ location used in Windows 98 and ME, I have
never found this to be a problem.

Comment 2

[S.Brooks]

The issue is only manifest when the user upgrades from Win95 to Win98 or XP.  
Mozilla and Firefox then look in a different folder for the user preferences and 
to the user it appears that all their settings are lost.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[S.Brooks]

This issue is still present in the current generation of browsers.  I guess the 
frequency of users upgrading from windows 95 to windows 98 or higher is not high 
enough for anyone to bother with this.

This problem manifests itself when users run the win95 explorer.exe under win98 
using the program 98lite.  When swapping beween the 98 and 95 shells using 
98lite the Mozilla settings are lost as the browser looks to a different folder.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

relevant code is here:
http://webtools.mozilla.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/xpcom/io/nsAppFileLocationProvider.cpp&rev=&root=/cvsroot#391

unlikely to get fixed, but ==> Profiles

Comment 6

[Kevin Brosnan]

Windows 95 is an unsupported version of Windows for Firefox 2. Furthermore Firefox 3 only functions on versions of Windows greater than Windows 2000.