Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:30:37 -0500 From: bsdlogical <kwlogical@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Firefox user profiles stored in strange directories Message-ID: <4398FA5D.2030601@bellsouth.net>
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I've recently noticed that Firefox stores profiles (in the ~/.mozilla directory) under unreadable characters. At first glance I thought they were Unicode, and my terminal couldn't read them. However, attempts at reading them as Unicode characters have failed. The following is thedirectory hierarchy starting at ~/.mozilla: === bsdlogical@krypton$ ls -lahR .mozilla total 16 drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 ?d&( drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 ?d&(0?? drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 ?d&(p?? drwx------ 3 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 ?d&(??? drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 ?d&(??? drwx------ 7 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 53 bsdlogical bsdlogical 3.5K Dec 8 22:18 .. .mozilla/?d&(: total 4 drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 7 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 .. .mozilla/?d&(0??: total 4 drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 7 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 .. -rw-r----- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 0B Dec 8 22:18 console.log .mozilla/?d&(p??: total 6 drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 7 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 .. -rw-r----- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 624B Dec 8 22:18 console.log .mozilla/?d&(???: total 6 drwx------ 3 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 7 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 .. drwx------ 6 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.0K Dec 8 22:20 7mvpapea.default .mozilla/?d&(???/7mvpapea.default: total 1128 drwx------ 6 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.0K Dec 8 22:20 . drwx------ 3 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 0B Dec 8 22:18 .parentlock drwxr-xr-x 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 Cache -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 685K Dec 8 22:18 XUL.mfasl drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 bookmarkbackups -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 16K Dec 8 22:18 bookmarks.html -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 64K Dec 8 22:19 cert8.db drwxr-xr-x 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 chrome -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 97B Dec 8 22:18 compatibility.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 121K Dec 8 22:18 compreg.dat -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 499B Dec 8 22:19 cookies.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 extensions -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 178B Dec 8 22:18 extensions.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 183B Dec 8 22:18 extensions.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 2.3K Dec 8 22:18 extensions.rdf -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 207B Dec 8 22:20 formhistory.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.2K Dec 8 22:20 history.dat -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 64K Dec 8 22:19 key3.db -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 766B Dec 8 22:20 localstore.rdf lrwxr-xr-x 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 16B Dec 8 22:18 lock -> 127.0.0.1:+93065 -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 287B Dec 8 22:18 mimeTypes.rdf -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 479B Dec 8 22:18 prefs.js -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 752B Dec 8 22:18 search.rdf -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 64K Dec 8 22:18 secmod.db -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 89K Dec 8 22:18 xpti.dat .mozilla/?d&(???/7mvpapea.default/Cache: total 134 drwxr-xr-x 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 6 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.0K Dec 8 22:20 .. -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 24K Dec 8 22:20 _CACHE_001_ -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 28K Dec 8 22:20 _CACHE_002_ -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 76K Dec 8 22:20 _CACHE_003_ -rw------- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 276B Dec 8 22:19 _CACHE_MAP_ .mozilla/?d&(???/7mvpapea.default/bookmarkbackups: total 20 drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 6 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.0K Dec 8 22:20 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 16K Dec 8 22:18 bookmarks-2005-12-08.html .mozilla/?d&(???/7mvpapea.default/chrome: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 6 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.0K Dec 8 22:20 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.1K Dec 8 22:18 userChrome-example.css -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 663B Dec 8 22:18 userContent-example.css .mozilla/?d&(???/7mvpapea.default/extensions: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 6 bsdlogical bsdlogical 1.0K Dec 8 22:20 .. .mozilla/?d&(???: total 6 drwx------ 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 . drwx------ 7 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Dec 8 22:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 34B Dec 8 22:18 profiles.ini === On another machine, the top of the hierarchy looks like this: === bsdlogical@argon$ ls -lah .mozilla total 12 drwxr-xr-x 4 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Nov 5 18:20 . drwxr-xr-x 60 bsdlogical bsdlogical 4.0K Dec 8 19:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bsdlogical bsdlogical 335B Sep 5 13:25 appreg drwxr-xr-x 3 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Sep 5 13:25 firefox drwxr-xr-x 2 bsdlogical bsdlogical 512B Nov 5 18:20 plugins === This problem has occurred since version 1.0.4 or so. In addition, Firefox sometimes randomly creates a new profile. Besides being a minor annoyance (favorites and settings disappear), it is also unpredictable. === bsdlogical@krypton$ uname -a FreeBSD krypton.bsdlogical.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Mon Jul 18 11:41:51 EDT 2005 root@krypton.bsdlogical.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KRYPTON i386 === I'm using Firefox 1.5 at the moment (I haven't experienced the random creation of a new profile, but the strange characters still persist - even after forcing Firefox to regenerate the ~/.mozilla directory). Has anyone had such problems before? -bsdlogical
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