271842 - profile corruption when renaming profile folder after theme installation

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Lukas Petrovicky (CZilla)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 profile gets corrupted, if you rename the profile folder
after you have installed any theme (tested on Luna and 708090, 2 different PCs).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. download and install any theme
2. close Firefox
3. change profile folder's name (e.g. from '2z4u027a.default' to just 'default')
4. update profiles.ini
5. run Firefox

Actual Results:  
UI is absolutely messed up

Expected Results:  
UI should be OK. I only changed folder name, didn't I?

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

If you changed the profile folder name, it's your own fault. This is not a
supported action. However, you can work around the problem by deleting the
profile chrome/chrome.rdf cache and running in safe mode, then in regular mode.
I believe that this will fix the problem.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

I think we have a bug somewhere about only using relative file paths in the
profile.  If that were done, then perhaps this wouldn't be a problem?

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

That is probably correct, yes.