923923 - Use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME for save user's configuration and data

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259356

(Firefox :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Description

[Sylvhem]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130911155657



Actual results:

At present, Firefox for Linux saves the data and configuration of the user inside ~/.mozilla/firefox. 


Expected results:

I think Firefox should follow the proposal of freedesktop.org (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) and store personal configuration in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (default to ~/.config) and personal data in $XDG_DATA_HOME (default to ~/.local/share/).
This way has some advantages. First, it avoids that $HOME are cluttered by lots of configuration files and directories. Moreover, group together all configuration and data files, permits to the user to copy its complete configuration easily.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Like with other programs, people cannot agree on what is configuration and what is data.