270648 - Changed xxxxxxxx.default to default.xxx for profile directory

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Eli Gordon]

In the existing documentation, the profile directory is listed as
xxxxxxxx.default, while on my system (WinXP, FFv1.0), the directory is
default.xxx . I'm assuming that this is a bug, and I've pasted the necessary
changes below:

Index: mozilla-org/html/support/firefox/edit.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/support/firefox/edit.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 edit.html
--- mozilla-org/html/support/firefox/edit.html	11 Nov 2004 14:20:58 -0000	1.7
+++ mozilla-org/html/support/firefox/edit.html	18 Nov 2004 18:53:06 -0000
@@ -62,16 +62,16 @@
   hard drive.</p>
 
 <p>On <strong>Windows XP/2000</strong>, the path is usually
-  <code class="filename"><a
href="#appdata">%AppData%</a>\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<var>xxxxxxxx</var>.default\</code>,
-  where <var>xxxxxxxx</var> is a random string of 3 characters. Just browse to
+  <code class="filename"><a
href="#appdata">%AppData%</a>\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.<var>xxx</var>\</code>,
+  where <var>xxx</var> is a random string of 3 characters. Just browse to
   <code class="filename">C:\Documents and Settings\<var>[User
Name]</var>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\</code>
   and the rest should be obvious.</p>
 <p>On <strong>Windows 95/98/Me</strong>, the path is usually
-  <code class="filename">C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<var>xxxxxxxx</var>.default\</code></p>
+  <code class="filename">C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.<var>xxx</var>\</code></p>
 <p>On <strong>Linux</strong>, the path is usually
-  <code class="filename">~/.mozilla/firefox/<var>xxxxxxxx</var>.default/</code></p>
+  <code class="filename">~/.mozilla/firefox/default.<var>xxx</var>/</code></p>
 <p>On <strong>MacOS X</strong>, the path is usually
-  <code class="filename">~/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/<var>xxxxxxxx</var>.default/</code></p>
+  <code class="filename">~/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.<var>xxx</var>/</code></p>
 
 <p class="note">Firefox is capable of handling more than one user and thus,
   more than one profile. The path examples above refers to the <code>default</code>

Comment 1

[Eli Gordon]

Attachment: Proposed changes

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Don't assume it's a bug.  If you created a profile with an old version, you
might see default.xxx, but that probably isn't what the current version creates.