269090 - Extension manager becomes full-screen, blank , unclosable window on clicking options.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[ben stephens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I get a message The file file:c:///C:/Documents and
Settings/ben.DOMAIN/Application
Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/default.qg1/extensions/{one of those funny number
things}/ch cannot be found. Please check the location and try again.

Notes:
The file name is probably not complete in the above string as it reaches the
edge of the box.
I recently deleted my old user area ben.DOMAIN

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click tools > Extensions
2.Click Options
3.Click ok to the error message

Actual Results:  
Extension manager became full-screen, blank , unclosable window.

Expected Results:  
Found that the file did not exist and asked if you wanted to create a new one in
current user area maybe.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

well, I take it as you moved your profile folder from one path (C:/Documents and
Settings/ben.DOMAIN/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/default.qg1) to
another? If so, the bug is invalid, as you should have changed corresponding
paths in prefs/chrome registry file (profile/chrome/chrome.rdf).

another interesting issue is that the path starts with "file:c:///C:/" instead
of "file:///C:/". Is that a typo?

Comment 2

[ben stephens]

(In reply to comment #1)
> well, I take it as you moved your profile folder from one path (C:/Documents and
> Settings/ben.DOMAIN/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/default.qg1) to
> another? If so, the bug is invalid, as you should have changed corresponding
> paths in prefs/chrome registry file (profile/chrome/chrome.rdf).

ok, changed the paths in that file, and everything works now, thanks for that.
:) I'll be moving my user area again soon, will I have to change the settings in
this file again? Is there a way that Firefox could handle user migration a
little more robustly?


 
> another interesting issue is that the path starts with "file:c:///C:/" instead
> of "file:///C:/". Is that a typo?

Yep, that's a typo

sorry it wasn't a real bug and thanks for sorting me out.
Ben

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

you are welcome.

closing, as this wasn't a real bug.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

and - sorry for double-mail - yes, you'll need to change paths again if you move
it, I think. I don't know the reason why absolute paths are used instead of
relative, but that's another bug, probably filed already.