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I didn't want to make a new account just to request a new feature, so if this thread could be moved. Reason I ask for relative paths is so that the user can decide what program they want to use. I'm using portable firefox and as thus, I don't have anything installed so flashgot doesn't see anything! I can tell flashgot to use an absolute path, but really, what use is that if I change computers?

As a secondary request, no hardcoded paths to "supported managers". That just adds un-needed programming for the developers! Let the end users decide what programs they use. Lets say for example, that the end user is a power user; has programs on one partition, system info on another, and documents on yet another; their programs folder, 32-bit or otherwise, could be something like E:\ instead of the C:\ you are looking for. Or the more likely scenario, they reinstalled Windows and it didn't give them C:\, but E:\. Still can't find the correct path!

When you put the hardcoded paths in, there's no way to change what parameters are sent like you can when doing an absolute path to the same program! Save time, save programming!

> the end user ...; has programs on one partition, system info on another, and documents on yet another

> their programs folder ... could be something like E:\ instead of the C:\ you are looking for

> Or the more likely scenario, they reinstalled Windows and it didn't give them C:\, but E:\. Still can't find the correct path!

> When you put the hardcoded paths in, there's no way to change what parameters are sent like you can when doing an absolute path to the same program

My "system" drive is E:, all my programs are stored on C:, with that & whatever else, stored anywhere - except for E:
There is no problem with Mozilla or any extensions in that respect.

AFAIK, there is only one file stored on your system drive related to Mozilla, that must be there, & that is the profiles.ini (or registry.dat, depending on your Mozilla version). All other Mozilla files can be stored anywhere.

(Now, more recent versions of Mozilla have the tendency to store full paths in some of their structures, like extensions.*, but that is a different issue & not related to any particular extension.)