And it came to pass that Henning Schnoor wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> when creating a profile in some specific folder, Mozilla
> always adds a name which seems to be made up of random
> characters, like "s76fhsgdf.so" or something.
> 
> Why does it do this, and how can I prevent it?
> 
> This is very annoying, because of that I failed to share a
> profile between a Win 98 and NT4 installation.
> 


It's called directory salting, and it's very popular here, 
although a lot of the rest of the world considers it a damn 
nuisance.

As the developement team is in love with this annoying security 
feature, they haven't bothered telling anyone how to disable it.  
It really should be an installation option.

-- 
}:-)       Christopher Jahn
{:-(         Dionysian Reveler
  
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but 
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. (Albert 
Einst
 
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