Similarly, GNU has decided to put IceCat in a directory called icecat (instead of firefox). However, this is a half-measure since icecat is in the parent directory .mozilla.
To summarize, we already have: ~/.thunderbird -> ~/.icedove ~/.mozilla/firefox -> ~/.mozilla/icecat The proposal is to go all the way and make: ~/.mozilla/icecat -> ~/.gnuzilla/icecat Thanks, Tiberiu On 06/15/2016 07:58 PM, David Hedlund wrote: > Tiberiu makes sense; The /Debian/ Free Software /Guidelines/ (DFSG) decided > to put Icedove in ~/.icedove > > > On 2016-06-15 18:54, Daniel Quintiliani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think it's a better idea to keep all the Mozilla-based products' profiles >> in the same predictable place. Thunderbird, Tor Browser Bundle, etc. >> >> BTW, any new info on the v45 security issues vs the cookie prompt? Were we >> going to backport the security updates to v38, or move forward to v45 like >> TBB has, possibly including one of the add-ons Mozilla recommended? >> >> Personally I can't imagine using a cookie prompt for each site (plus every >> banner ad and invisible GIF?) and always found it better to clean cookies on >> shutdown, and have done so pretty much all my life. I wouldn't mind >> sacrificing such a feature in exchange for fixing security issues now and >> more easily in the future. >> >> -- >> >> -Dan Q >> >> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:07:34 +0300, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic <t...@ceata.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm impressed with the new GNU IceCat maintained by Ruben. >>> >>> However, I would love to see the profiles stored under .gnuzilla/icecat/ >>> instead of the current path .mozilla/icecat/. >>> >>> Is there a technical reason why this shouldn't be possible? I'm thinking >>> maybe backward compatibility? >>> >>> Please let me know. >>> Tiberiu >>> >>> -- >>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
