463707 - Talos doesn't fully clean up profile directories?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Rob wondered during a discussion if Talos was cleaning up both profile directories. On Windows and OS X, profiles are split into two locations:

OS X:
  ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/
  ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/

Windows XP:
  C:\Documents and Settings\(user)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
  C:\Documents and Settings\(user)\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Looking at the Talos code, it only seems to create and remove one of these directories.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Bah, filed in wrong component.

Comment 2

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

The talos code works from a standard clean profile - the browser doesn't create the profile per run but copies the standard profile to a new location and then provides the location to the browser through a command line switch.  Would those secondary directories still get created with that work flow?

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Is Talos using "-P foo" or "-profile /bar/foo"? I think the split directories are only used with named (-P) profiles... Checking for the creation of a "Cache" directory in the testing profile would verify that. Or checking in the paths above.

Comment 4

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Talos uses the "-profile /foo/bar" option.  A quick check on a mac talos boxes selected at random does not indicate the presence of the directories mentioned above.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Ok, good to know!