272392 - ~/.mozilla contains multiple directories for storing e.g. preferences, these directories have names withs lots of 8-bit characters in it.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[joost helberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041115 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041115 Firefox/1.0

ls ~/.mozilla returns various directories with 8-bit chars in the name, all
these directories store the standard preferences/cache etc. directory structure.
There is 2 bugs: there should only be one of these directories and the names of
this directory should be 8-bit clean for access by other applications.
$ ls ~/.mozilla
appreg   joost          plugins   ?+#@@??  ?+#@???  ?+#@???  ?+#@???
appreg~  mozver.dat     registry  ?+#@???  ?+#@???  ?+#@???  ?+#@???
default  pluginreg.dat  ?+#@      ?+#@???  ?+#@???  ?+#@???
$ ls ~/.mozilla | od -xc
0000000 7061 7270 6765 610a 7070 6572 7e67 640a
          a   p   p   r   e   g  \n   a   p   p   r   e   g   ~  \n   d
0000020 6665 7561 746c 6a0a 6f6f 7473 6d0a 7a6f
          e   f   a   u   l   t  \n   j   o   o   s   t  \n   m   o   z
0000040 6576 2e72 6164 0a74 6c70 6775 6e69 6572
          v   e   r   .   d   a   t  \n   p   l   u   g   i   n   r   e
0000060 2e67 6164 0a74 6c70 6775 6e69 0a73 6572
          g   .   d   a   t  \n   p   l   u   g   i   n   s  \n   r   e
0000100 6967 7473 7972 e80a 232b 0a40 2be8 4023
          g   i   s   t   r   y  \n 350   +   #   @  \n 350   +   #   @
0000120 ae40 0aff 2be8 4023 ceb0 0aff 2be8 4023
          @ 256 377  \n 350   +   #   @ 260 316 377  \n 350   +   #   @
0000140 d4b0 0aff 2be8 4023 cec0 0aff 2be8 4023
        260 324 377  \n 350   +   #   @ 300 316 377  \n 350   +   #   @
0000160 d4c0 0aff 2be8 4023 dad0 0aff 2be8 4023
        300 324 377  \n 350   +   #   @ 320 332 377  \n 350   +   #   @
0000200 dae0 0aff 2be8 4023 dce0 0aff 2be8 4023
        340 332 377  \n 350   +   #   @ 340 334 377  \n 350   +   #   @
0000220 aef0 0aff 2be8 4023 daf0 0aff 2be8 4023
        360 256 377  \n 350   +   #   @ 360 332 377  \n 350   +   #   @
0000240 dcf0 0aff
        360 334 377  \n
0000244
$ find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js
/home/joost/.mozilla/default/rv1iydjb.slt/prefs.js
/home/joost/.mozilla/default/prefs.js
/home/joost/.mozilla/joost/w2eeq5ga.slt/prefs.js
/home/joost/.mozilla/è+#@ðÜÿ/i4bftjdr.default/prefs.js
/home/joost/.mozilla/è+#@àÜÿ/hp9f14ke.default/prefs.js


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. migrate from old (pre 1.0) firefox to new firefox
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
after some tries to get the preferences saved, no new directories were added to
~/.mozilla.

Expected Results:  
Create one single readable directory under ~/.mozilla.

I build firefox from source.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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