[tor-bugs] #2258 [Tor bundles/installation]: Data is incorrectly stored on disk in wrong place

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#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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