389301 - Profile folder location should be standardized

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318780

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Joshua Nixon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.5 (20070716)

Thunderbird places profile folder in (User)\Library\Thunderbird. Firefox places profile folder in (User)\Library\Application Support\Firefox.

Thunderbird should ideally place its profiles into Application Support folder as well for consistency.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Thunderbird on OSX or create new profile
2.Open (User)\Library
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird folder containing Profiles is present

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should place profiles in (user)\Library\Application Support\Thunderbird instead

Unless I am mistaken on Windows there is similar issues with Firefox profiles in (User)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox and Thunderbird in (User)\Application Data\Thunderbird.