[tbb-bugs] #14795 [Tor Browser]: Windows Environmental Variables not usable in Profiles.ini when deploying tor browser across a domain

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#14795: Windows Environmental Variables not usable in Profiles.ini when deploying
tor browser across a domain
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  tbb-team
  johnakabean            |     Status:  needs_information
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  windows, variables, windows
  Browser                |  environment, windows environmental variables,
   Resolution:           |  windows variables
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by johnakabean):

 Thank you Brade MCS for the reply. I haven't checked this in a while and
 apologize. Yes, all you do is add %appdata% or any %variable% to profile
 path, just like the workaround I posted below in a comment, and have tor
 browser pass it as a literal path to windows and windows will take care of
 the rest.

 I understand why it doesn't work at the moment as torbrowser expects %h
 (one % sign) for variables it parses itself but it doesn't turn %h into
 the environmental variable on windows, only Unix/Linux.

 Replying to [comment:1 mcs]:


 > I would like to help, but I am not familiar with this feature of Firefox
 and I cannot find any documentation for it.
 >
 > Can you provide step-by-step instructions for testing this in a recent
 versiom of Firefox?  Do I need to do anything other than edit profiles.ini
 so it contains a Path value with %AppData% in it?

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