875240 - Easy way to skip/disable/turn off the Import Wizard (profile migration) on first startup (when no profile exists) does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[mattieu.souchaud]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130512194445

Steps to reproduce:

Launch firefox 21 when no profile exists.

Following this bug resolution : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286557
The file %ProgramFilesDir%\Mozilla Firefox\override.ini exists and contains :
[XRE]
EnableProfileMigrator=false




Actual results:

The import wizard appears.


Expected results:

The import wizard should not have appeared.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Related (bug not necessarily changing anything): bug 723493 comment 1 and further.

Comment 2

[mattieu.souchaud]

For information, with firefox 20, %ProgramFilesDir%\Mozilla Firefox\override.ini file was read and the import wizard was not appearing when no profile exists.

I made a diff between toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp v20 & v21, there is only few differences. The only interesting diffs seems how it defines exeDir. 

I put override.ini here : 
%ProgramFilesDir%\Mozilla Firefox\browser\override.ini, 
and it works! The import wizard does not appears even if no profile exists.