tests conducted by using ntfs to enforce access permissions. [based on bug 41057] personal note: ntfs w/o run once doesn't work <g>, i don't have regchrome for win32, can we see about getting it packaged w/ future packages? to emulate regchrome I ran mozilla as owner and loaded all of my modules [editor, mail, address book, irc]. running as mortal I saw two problems, talkback had some errors and chatzilla did not have happy chrome. but chrome://chatzilla/content/ worked. [no chrome] interesting output from filemon [http://www.sysinternals.com] mozilla.exe IRP_MJ_CREATE %home%\application data\mozilla\users50\default\user.js FILE NOT FOUND - mozilla.exe IRP_MJ_CREATE %home%\application data\mozilla\users50\default\user.js\Desktop.ini PATH NOT FOUND - mozilla.exe IRP_MJ_CREATE %mozilla%\components\Netscape\Netscape6\Talkback.ini FILE NOT FOUND - mozilla.exe IRP_MJ_CREATE %mozilla%\components\Netscape\Netscape6\permdata.box ACCESS DENIED Lots of name collision near cache starting at %documentsnandsettings% and travelling down to %home%\application data\mozilla\users50\default\cache mozilla.exe IRP_MJ_CREATE %mozilla%\chrome\user-skins.rdf ACCESS DENIED Asa, %mozilla% = f:\program files\mozilla i'll leave a shortcut on your desktop. In order to show you filemon output i'll have to do a bit of kludging.

timeless, who should get this?

this needs a better owner.

Reassigning to XPCOM which is the component of the parent bug.

still needs a better owner; re-assigning to component owner

none of these files are specific to XPCOM. Most are related to profiles. over to that owner.

should what's still relevant move to toolkit?

No, I don't know of anything here that affects toolkit. If there is anything relevant then a new bug should be filed against toolkit for the relevant issues if there isn't one already.

This bug is filed in a bugzilla component related to pre-Firefox code which no longer exists. I believe it is no longer relevant and I am therefore closing it INCOMPLETE. If you believe that this bug is still valid and needs to be fixed, please reopen it and move it to the Toolkit:Startup and Profile System product/component.