296250 - When I start firefox. It don't show nothing (after moving profile)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Henry Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: FireFox 1.0.4

When I start firefox. It don't show nothing. Just the address and google bars, 
and all the titles are together at the left above corner.  The left click show 
a back box.!!! :|


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
- I have FireFox with Noia  Noia 2.0 2.82
- I was trying to change the "Documents and Settings" windows folder target.
- so I did:  Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
	     Key: Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
	     Name: ProfilesDirectory
	     Value: d:\Documents and Settings
- I Restart my computer. I log in with my user.
- I log off, and log in with administrator user. 
- I rename the new profile folder  in "d:\Documents and Settings"
- I move my old profile folder "C:\Documents and Settings\PROFILEFOLDER" to 
the new target in "d:\Documents and Settings".
- I restart my computer.
- When I start firefox. It don't show nothing. Just the address and google 
bars, and all the titles are together at the left above corner.  The left 
click show a back box.!!! :|
after some time it not starts.
- Mozilla Thunderbird failed too!


Actual Results:  
I reinstall firefox... but nothing....

Expected Results:  
Works... I work with firefox...

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

You're having theme problems because you changed the location of your profile
folder so (apparently) firefox is trying to use a theme that it can't find. 
Start firefox in safe mode and uninstall the theme, and when you reinstall it
later (while using the default Winstripe theme) it'll work fine.  Please note,
you'll have to do this with extensions to.

I can't be any more helpful as I didn't really read all of your post.

Comment 2

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

*** Bug 296254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Tristor]

I am guessing that somewhere, it is using absolute paths to the profile
directory.  You will need to change something somewhere so that it will look in
D: instead of C: for %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.  I am not sure that
this actually qualifies as a bug, because the original intent of the application
(and the profile system) is not for the profiles to be movable between drives as
part of the entire %APPDATA% directory structure, but only as the profile itself
between drives/computers where different installations would use them, if that
makes any sense.  Perhaps this should be Invalid?

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Yes, this is invalid, you can't move profiles yet. Things have gotten better in
Firefox 1.1a+ in that chrome.rdf (absolute paths in which were causing things
like what reporter described) is no longer used, but you still can't move your
profile like that, since some files still use absolute locations. Ideally it
shouldn't use absolute paths, but that's a few different bugs, some of which are
already filed.