[tor-bugs] #27604 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Relocating the Tor Browser directory is broken with Tor Browser 8

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#27604: Relocating the Tor Browser directory is broken with Tor Browser 8
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Major                                |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-regression,      |  Actual Points:  3
  tbb-8.0.1-can, TorBrowserTeam201910R, tbb-     |
  backport                                       |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  0.5
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by gk):

 * keywords:  tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-regression, tbb-8.0.1-can,
     TorBrowserTeam201910 =>
     tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-regression, tbb-8.0.1-can, TorBrowserTeam201910R,
     tbb-backport
 * status:  needs_revision => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:37 acat]:
 > I can't reproduce... Which exact files did you remove to get these?

 Hrm. It seems I can't reproduce that anymore with clean bundles, sorry for
 the noise. I wonder what I did do differently before, though... Anyway,
 nice work! I cherry-picked you patch onto `tor-browser-68.2.0esr-9.5-1`
 (commit 7d5f879bba1e81ee64576e882f9d8916a2bc471e).

 It will be interesting to see what Mozilla folks are saying. One thing we
 should not forget when upstreaming is including a test that makes sure
 this scenario is still working. It seems over time more and more
 functionality crept in that broke the relocation scenario.

 We miiiight want to backport the changes at some point but not sure. This
 will probably be sysrqb's decision.

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