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"Browse button" suddenly stops working

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This issue is quite complicated, I will try to give a maximum of details.

-- Environment details We are in a Windows 2012R2 corporate environment, with Windows XP/7 workstations. In order to standardize our users environment, their Firefox and Thunderbird profiles are stored on a network share, like this :

\\server\userprofiles\username\firefox.profil

We use Active Directory folder redirection for Application Data, so %APPDATA% is stored in the following folder :

\\server\userprofiles\username\Application data

Naturally, Firefox's profiles.ini is stored in :

\\server\userprofiles\username\Application data\Mozilla\Firefox

We customize this file in order to use a relative path. Here is the content of our profiles.ini file :


[General] StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=../../../firefox.profil


We don't use an absolute path because we don't want to manually edit the profiles.ini of each user to set the correct path ( Path=\\server\userprofiles\username\firefox.profil)

These settings works correctly.

-- Problem Sometimes, users complaint about "Browse button" (input type="file") not working anymore. Actually, when we look further :

  • The "Browse button" is really not responding (nothing happens when we click)
  • However, we can drag/drop a file on the input area, the file is accepted and can be uploaded
  • It seems that something is locked, because when we go to "Bookmarks" the dialog box is empty, we can not add or import bookmarks
  • Restarting Firefox does not help
  • Closing Firefox, deleting the remaining parent.lock file does corrects the issue

Are we doing something wrong ? Do you think that using a relative path with "..\..\.." is a bad idea ?

Thanks

This issue is quite complicated, I will try to give a maximum of details. -- Environment details We are in a Windows 2012R2 corporate environment, with Windows XP/7 workstations. In order to standardize our users environment, their Firefox and Thunderbird profiles are stored on a network share, like this : \\server\userprofiles\username\firefox.profil We use Active Directory folder redirection for Application Data, so %APPDATA% is stored in the following folder : \\server\userprofiles\username\Application data Naturally, Firefox's profiles.ini is stored in : \\server\userprofiles\username\Application data\Mozilla\Firefox We customize this file in order to use a relative path. Here is the content of our profiles.ini file : --------------------------------------- [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=../../../firefox.profil --------------------------------------- We don't use an absolute path because we don't want to manually edit the profiles.ini of each user to set the correct path ( Path=\\server\userprofiles\username\firefox.profil) These settings works correctly. -- Problem Sometimes, users complaint about "Browse button" (input type="file") not working anymore. Actually, when we look further : * The "Browse button" is really not responding (nothing happens when we click) * However, we can drag/drop a file on the input area, the file is accepted and can be uploaded * It seems that something is locked, because when we go to "Bookmarks" the dialog box is empty, we can not add or import bookmarks * Restarting Firefox does not help * Closing Firefox, deleting the remaining parent.lock file does corrects the issue Are we doing something wrong ? Do you think that using a relative path with "..\..\.." is a bad idea ? Thanks

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What is the "browse" button? Do you mean the location bar (where you enter the url into)?

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What is meant is the Browse button on a web page to upload a file (input type="file" as posted above).

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We did not find a solution or explanation, but we found a bypass.

The user profiles were stored on a NAS share (Synology RackStation RS814, firmware DSM 4.3-3810 Update 2).

Suspecting an issue or incompatibility with the NAS, we tried to move the profiles on a share directly located on the domain controller.

The affected users stopped immediately to complain with profiles problems.