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Invalid Directory of profile creation

Open IkelAtomig opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

In Firefox, If I create profiles via about:profiles it creates profiles and store Profile data in this Directory :

C:\Users\Edward\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.Default

But When I use the Add-On the Profiles have the directory changed as below :

C:\Users\Edward\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\xxxxx.Default

It should follow the default Directory Scheme. This might cause usability issues.

If you are releasing a Fix for this. Would be great. In the meantime, Could someone help me Moving my Profiles safely into Profiles Folder and use FF as usual ?

IkelAtomig avatar Jun 24 '22 07:06 IkelAtomig

The current behavior is actually intentional. This is because Firefox is very inconsistent. On Windows it seems to put new profiles in:

C:\Users\Edward\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.Default

On Linux it puts stuff in:

C:\Users\Edward\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\xxxxx.Default

But I'm not even sure about this because maybe on different Windows/Linux systems it does different things.

Either way, Firefox doesn't seem to care where we put profiles and it doesn't seem to cause any usability issues. I will implement some method to move profiles in the future so if you don't like where the extension puts the profiles you can just move them.

null-dev avatar Jun 26 '22 00:06 null-dev