255646 - Default Cache Directory is in Wrong Place in File System

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 74085

(Core :: Networking: Cache, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Warrington]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7)

The default cache directory is placed under the "Application Settings" 
directory within the user's home directory. It should be under the "Local 
Settings" directory like Internet Explorer's is. This prevents users with 
roaming profiles from having large profiles which increases network bandwidth.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla
2. Let it create a profile in the default directory


Actual Results:  
The cache is stored in "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application 
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default.???\Cache"

Expected Results:  
The cache should be stored in "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local 
Settings" somewhere. Perhaps under "Mozilla\Cache\<Cache System Version>" so 
that multiple Mozilla software products (Mozilla & Firefox really) can use the 
same cache if the caching systems are the same.

The is only a real problem for Windows users who have roaming profiles.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Allen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74085 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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