Comment 77 for bug 919659

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In , Markus Mohrhard (moggi) wrote :

(In reply to comment #37)
> Interesting observation from
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/919659/comments/72 :
> "My firefox profile was on another disk partition than /home (because it is
> shared between several OS).
> I have copied it into the ~/.mozilla folder and then there's no bug anymore !
>
> So the bug it has nothing to do with the content of the firefox profile but it
> depends on the path to the firefox profile.
>
> So when working with passwords, libreoffice does read the profile.ini file in
> ~/.mozilla folder (WHY?), then :
> - if the path to the profile is not relative and situated outside the
> ~/.mozilla folder -> bug
> - if the path is relative and inside the ~/.mozilla folder -> NO BUG"
>
> @Markus: Since you have investigated this issue quite thoroughly, does this
> make you see an immediate nice and small fix?
>
>
> Reopening with normal severity as it only hits a very small subgroup of users.

There are some more interesting observations in the bug report.
I will have a look at this tomorrow and see if it is a bug in our init code, nss or mozilla.