Firebird- Extra folders?

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After much communication/help on a Firebird forum, this appears to me to
be a real glitch. Various fixes have not solved this.

Firebird 6.1 creates extra folders (Mozilla/Phoenix/Talkback) in a
location other than it's own folder on the hard drive every time it
runs.

Has anyone else seen this?

Mike Sa
 
After much communication/help on a Firebird forum, this appears to me to
be a real glitch. Various fixes have not solved this.

Firebird 6.1 creates extra folders (Mozilla/Phoenix/Talkback) in a
location other than it's own folder on the hard drive every time it
runs.

Has anyone else seen this?

Mike Sa
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Mozilla directory is required by some plugins.

Pheonix directory holds your settings, themes, extensions
and editable files such as usercontent.css.

Talkback directory is required by talkback enabled versions
and is only created by such builds.
 
Roger said:
Mozilla directory is required by some plugins.

Pheonix directory holds your settings, themes, extensions
and editable files such as usercontent.css.

Talkback directory is required by talkback enabled versions
and is only created by such builds.
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Thanks, Roger. That explains the purpose of those folders.

My complaint is that after a clean install of Firebird in
D:\Storage\Utilities\AInternet\Firebird, it creates those 3 folders in
my D:\Download directory, each time it runs.

Firebird is not registry-based. Why it keeps doing that is a question.
The only other program I've seen doing that is Spybot S&D.

Mike Sa
 
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Thanks, Roger. That explains the purpose of those folders.

My complaint is that after a clean install of Firebird in
D:\Storage\Utilities\AInternet\Firebird, it creates those 3 folders in
my D:\Download directory, each time it runs.

Firebird is not registry-based. Why it keeps doing that is a question.
The only other program I've seen doing that is Spybot S&D.

Mike Sa
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Are you using Windows 95/98/ME as opposed to Windows NT/2K/XP?
 
Firebird 6.1 creates extra folders (Mozilla/Phoenix/Talkback) in a
location other than it's own folder on the hard drive every time it
runs.

Has anyone else seen this?
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As long as you know where they are, why is this a problem? It's not
unique to Firebird, I have come across this phenomenon numerous times.
 
As long as you know where they are, why is this a problem? It's not
unique to Firebird, I have come across this phenomenon numerous times.
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I have just 7 folders in my Download directory, where I do most of my
work. When a program adds 3 folders, it leads to problems for me. I have
DUN and don't want extra garbage when I'm offline. This is a glitch in
the software.

Mike Sa
 
I have just 7 folders in my Download directory, where I do most of my
work. When a program adds 3 folders, it leads to problems for me. I have
DUN and don't want extra garbage when I'm offline. This is a glitch in
the software.

Mike Sa
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Okay. So, from your other post I see you are using Win98. Firebird is
Linux/WinNT centric and expects there to be a user directory for the
three directories. In Linux it's ./Home/user/.MozillaFirebird and in
NT its C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Application Data\Phoenix.
The work around for 98/ME is to place the MozillaFirebird directory in
C:\Program Files or the root of any partition. That should cause the
directories to be placed in the root of C:\ or the root of the other
partition. It's not a "glitch", but rather, a reflection of the fact
that Firebird is being developed primarily for LINUX and WinXP.
 
Roger said:
Okay. So, from your other post I see you are using Win98. Firebird is
Linux/WinNT centric and expects there to be a user directory for the
three directories. In Linux it's ./Home/user/.MozillaFirebird and in
NT its C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Application Data\Phoenix.
The work around for 98/ME is to place the MozillaFirebird directory in
C:\Program Files or the root of any partition. That should cause the
directories to be placed in the root of C:\ or the root of the other
partition. It's not a "glitch", but rather, a reflection of the fact
that Firebird is being developed primarily for LINUX and WinXP.
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Thanks, I'll try it. You gave me better info on ACF than I got in the
Firebird forum.

Mike Sa
 
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Thanks, I'll try it. You gave me better info on ACF than I got in the
Firebird forum.

Mike Sa
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Well, it just depends on who happens to be around at the moment both
here and at the MozillaZine forum. Don't give up on the forum, though,
there is tons of useful information there. If you happen to see
monkeyman (that's me), don't forget to wave hi. ;-)
 
Roger said:
Well, it just depends on who happens to be around at the moment both
here and at the MozillaZine forum. Don't give up on the forum, though,
there is tons of useful information there. If you happen to see
monkeyman (that's me), don't forget to wave hi. ;-)
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An update:
No matter where I locate the Firebird folder, it creates the extra
folders outside it's own folder as you mentioned. You described the
reason, but this is not desirable operation to me. So it is gone.

I loaded Netscape 7.02 standalone browser, supposedly 233 MHZ minimum,
and it works fine on my P166. By selecting the Classic screen, it is a
familiar interface, no extra folders, 2 MB smaller installed size size
than the Firebird browser.

I will have to find out if the complete 7.02 including mail client and
newsreader will also work on my P166 and any improvement on Netscape
4.79.

Mike Sa
 
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