691155 - New profile incorrectly uses Roaming for Local data location

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 640989

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111002 Firefox/10.0a1 SeaMonkey/2.7a1

Appears to happen starting with SM 2.0.  SM 1.1 appears fine:

1. Start with -ProfileManager option;
2. Create new profile and start with it;
3. Open Edit -> Preferences: Advanced / Cache and observe the "Cache Folder Location";
4. Exit and start again using the same profile;
5. Open Edit -> Preferences: Advanced / Cache and observe the "Cache Folder Location".

Actual:

On step 3 the location shown (and actually used) is:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<salt>.<profile_name>

On step 5 the location shown (and used) is:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<salt>.<profile_name>

Expected:

Observing location on steps 3 and 5 should show the same location used:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<salt>.<profile_name>

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There are few more things which gets initially saved to the Roaming location on the first profile start and subsequently saved to the Local location like:

OfflineCache
startupCache

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

this is shared code in toolkit. moving.

Comment 2

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Yep, I've just tried I get the same behavior with Firefox.

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

iirc this bug is a duplicate of a wontfix bug.

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #1)
> this is shared code in toolkit. moving.
Fairly certain this bug is a duplicate of a wontfix bug.

Comment 5

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

O.k. Found it.