Closed
Bug 991127
Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
firefox profile deletion deletes all files in folder
Categories
(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 270705
People
(Reporter: prathima.13, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.154 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: 1. Created a firefox profile for Selenium and placed it under C:\Users\<MyUserName> 2. Saved and launched browser using the profile created. 3. After sometime, deleted the profile created. It asked if i want to keep files or delete them, i chose to delete. Actual results: Deleted all files under C:\Users\<MyUserName>. Even the ones within folders. Expected results: It should not touch files unrelated to it. Not even there in recycle bin to restore. Imagine the complication if the same had happened when user had chosen C:/.
and Bug 18927. Non-professional users should not touch the Profiles manager and even modify the path, in theory.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Even firefox should not non-professionally delete users files. The behavior is dreadful. Wasted lot of time in recovering files. Please fix.
I understand, but I also know this problem is difficult to be the perfect solution, so it is WONFIX. Please refer to the relevant comment, or come up with better, more detailed, more complete solution.
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