[tor-bugs] #19646 [Obfuscation/meek]: Mac OS: wrong location for meek browser profile

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#19646: Mac OS: wrong location for meek browser profile
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     Reporter:  mcs            |      Owner:  dcf
         Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium         |  Milestone:
    Component:                 |    Version:
  Obfuscation/meek             |   Keywords:  tbb-regression,tbb-6.0-issues
     Severity:  Normal         |  Parent ID:
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 With Tor Browser 6.0 and newer, Meek is not working at all for some Mac OS
 users. Anonymous said on https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-
 browser-60-released:
  Note to all OSX users encountering similar error: make sure before
 upgrade/clean install for 6.0+ that user installing has sudo privileges.
 TorBrowser needs write access to /Applications/TorBrowser-Data/ which will
 fail unless the user is an administrator. sudo privileges can be removed
 after installation and first run without problems.
 Kathy and I were able to reproduce this problem on Mac OS 10.11.5 using a
 clean install of Tor Browser 6.0 (placed in /Applications) when logged in
 as a non-admin user.

 The problem is that the meek-client-torbrowser code that creates the Meek
 browser profile does not account for the fact that the user data should be
 stored under ~/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data when the
 browser is in /Applications. In fact, Meek works correctly when running as
 a privileged (admin) user, but the Meek helper profile is incorrectly
 placed under /Applications/TorBrowser-Data/ (the main browser profile is
 correctly placed under ~/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data).

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