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Re: [tor-bugs] #2258 [Tor bundles/installation]: Data is incorrectly stored on disk in wrong place
#2258: Data is incorrectly stored on disk in wrong place
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Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: erinn
Type: defect | Status: accepted
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor Browser Bundle for Linux
Component: Tor bundles/installation | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
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Changes (by erinn):
* status: new => accepted
Comment:
So, .mozilla is there because when TBB launches, it resets $HOME to TBB's
top level directory because Firefox expects things on Linux to be in
~/.mozilla. Is it a little hacky to do that? Yes. But it is a workaround
for Firefox, like many things in TBB. :)
.pulse-cookie is from !PulseAudio -- did you watch a flash video? If so,
it put its cookie in that directory, which it believes is $HOME. Seems
okay to me, since it's not writing things outside of the directory.
svn-commit.tmp is an accidental part of that https-everywhere release. I
can add something to the TBB Makefile to remove it, since it's actually
shipped as part of the .xpi. (Or I can upgrade the version of https-
everywhere.)
The options for fixing this are to change what we consider '$HOME' --
i.e., change it to tor-browser_$FOO/Data -- or to fundamentally change the
way all of these applications understand the Linux filesystem. Maybe
there's an easier or more clever way? I personally think it's fine the way
it is.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2258#comment:1>
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