On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Jan Varga <jva...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Since the integration of bug 768074 [1] ​in Nightly, the new version of
> the library is used. The library is used in IndexedDB, DOM cache, etc.
> We are confident that the library is fully backwards-compatible and we
> have an xpcshell test that restores a profile created in FF 11 (the version
> when IDB introduced compression of structured clone data).
>

Note, however, this is another case where if someone upgrades their profile
by running it in nightly, and then tries to bring the profile back to an
older version like release, things will break.  The old snappy code is not
forward-compatible with the new version.

Some discussion on how to deal with these things in bug 1246615:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246615
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