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Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 16, 2004 14:29 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)
In reply to: Bugs Abound by darthmdh
Parent article: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

Firefox 0.8 used the ~/.phoenix subdirectory for data such as profiles, according to the release notes (see the "Uninstalling Firefox" section about the directory it creates). In this respect, it is the same as previous releases.

Firefox 0.9 uses the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory to store data according to its release notes (see the "Changes You Should Be Aware Of" section). It does mention that some intermediate builds used ~/.firefox which is why you might have a directory by that name on your system. It says that if you update the profiles.ini file appropriately you can move the profile over to ~/.mozilla/firefox though, if you want to get rid of that directory.


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Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 16, 2004 15:10 UTC (Wed) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]

Yes, I'm positive that 0.8 uses ~/.phoenix, but what I didn't realize was that it too creates an empty ~/.mozilla directory.

Also, it looks as though you are correct about the ~/.firefox directory being created by the rc build since I can't get 0.9 to re-create it.

However, I'm still convinced that all this dir switching is the root of this bug because when I strace a 'firefox -remote' command with 0.9 it is still looking for ~/.firefox for the profile instead of ~/.mozilla/firefox.

QED

Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 16, 2004 19:36 UTC (Wed) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]


Just figured this out.

I had to edit the firefox/firefox shell script to change:

MOZ_USER_DIR=".firefox"

to:

MOZ_USER_DIR=".mozilla/firefox"

Now the -remote flag works.

Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 17, 2004 14:27 UTC (Thu) by papabean (guest, #22389) [Link]

Was that the only change you had to make? I still can't get the -remote to work.

Bugs Abound

Posted Jun 17, 2004 16:11 UTC (Thu) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]

I guess I jumped to conclusions because -remote still doesn't work for me either.

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