Closed Bug 9556 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Allow mozregistry.dat to live somewhere other than windows

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Profile: BackEnd
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: selmer, Assigned: racham)

References

Details

The mozregistry.dat file currently lives in a system directory. On windows machines it's in the system's windows directory. Attempting to implement something like run from CD wouldn't work unless we have write access to that directory. It would be better to be able to have the registry live with the app in this case.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M15
*** Bug 18223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Component: Profile Manager → Profile Manager BackEnd
Moving all Profile Manager bugs to new Profile Manager Backend component. Profile Manager component to be deleted.
Blocks: 31732
Getting off M15 radar.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Reassining to myself. Not doing it anytime now....
Assignee: selmer → racham
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Target Milestone: M16 → M20
Bing able to start from CD can help tremendously in the custom distribution market (ISPs, electronic books etc.).
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
This one is fixed. mozregistry now lives under HOME directory (HOME drive + HOME path).
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME or the user's home dir ("Documents", I think)? The latter would allow a user to create new profiles.
Documents is the home on mac.. Also, we have been receiving suggestions about the location for new registry. For full discussion, please follow.... news://news.mozilla.org/3998CB14.A6D8DDD6%40netscape.com
verified on build 2000082204M18
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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