> Any installed application imposes some constraints on directory
> structure, and Mozilla is no exception.
It IS an exception in the fact that the salted directory is random.
Even those applications that don't let the user choose install
location / directory name are not random. If Mozilla didn't randomize
things half (but not the other half) of my complaint would disappear
because then it would remain consistent across computers and installs,
and my scripting techniques would no longer be broken. (But it's this
very consistency that brings up the security issues for which the
salting was implemented. So it shouldn't be hardcoded. Rather it
should be user choice.)
> get rid of the salt directory and do the following: Assume that if a
> profile name is something other than "default," then it's reasonably
> unpredicatble and doesn't need salting. Then, we either disallow the
That works for me. Or, as Ben mentioned later, if the user
overrides the "Default" profile with something that they choose.
However, last I knew, the owner of Bug 70931 marked it as WONTFIX.
Is it possible to reopen a bug that the owner doesn't want fixed?
(I'm not as familiar with these things as I should be.)
Jason.
