287561 - Firefox profile installed on memory stick makes Firefox hangs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157662

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Philippe GOETZ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

There is a major difference in the baseURL between the chrome.rdf in
resource:/chrome and the one in the profile. The baseURL in the chrome.rdf in
profile used file: protocol with absolute address, while the standard one use
resources: protocol which is a relative protocol.

This major difference will make unusable a profile stored on a memory stick as
soon as you install an extension in the profile.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the profile on a memory stick
2. Install an extension
3. Reinstall the memory stick with another drive letter
4. Firefox hangs



As it exists a resource: protocol, it will worth to have a profile: protocol,
which will remove any absolute reference to the profile through the file: protocol.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is a dup of the "use relative paths in profile contents.rdf" bug, which was
fixed recently. Please search for dups before filing new bugs.

Comment 2

[Robin Monks]

Dupe of bug 157662.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157662 ***

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

That's the wrong dup, but whatever...