Firefox user profiles stored in strange directories
bsdlogical
kwlogical at bellsouth.net
Thu Dec 8 19:38:01 PST 2005
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:
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bsdlogical at 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 at 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 at krypton$ uname -a
FreeBSD krypton.bsdlogical.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Mon Jul
18 11:41:51 EDT 2005
root at 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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