545938 - extension.ini gives wrong file path after re-installing windows or changing the path of firefox profile

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 344671

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

The extension.ini file is in the profile folder, in which all the extensions path are written as absolute path like C:\Users\aaa\appdata\mozilla\firefox\

If I change the path of firefox profile(e.g. change the windows %UserProfile% variable, set up a new user and copy all the files into the new userprofile ), all the extensions will not work. It is better to use a relative path and keep all the extensions under the profile directory.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.change the variable %userprofile% in windows registry to a new location
2.copy all the user profiles to the new  location
3.start firefox

Actual Results:  
extensions do not work

Expected Results:  
extensions do work