Ah, yes, as per your bug report at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528082> ...
I guess a preference setting and/or policy config would be better - but I suppose that may depend on whether the preference/policy is set before or after a particular profile is in use ? Thanks James Pearson Dave Townsend wrote: > > Currently as long as SNAP_NAME is defined to something it will disable > profiles-per-install, but there is an intention to replace that method of > detecting snap packaged so I can't guarantee that that will exist long-term. > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:50 AM James Pearson wrote: > Dave Townsend wrote: >> >> (sorry if this doesn't thread right, I only just joined this list) >> >> Regarding how the dedicated profiles per install feature works, there >> is currently no difference between how it works on normal Firefox >> builds and ESR. >> >> New versions of Firefox are not new installations. The installation >> is defined by the installation directory. >> >> As long as you are upgrading the Firefox version by putting the new >> version into the same directory that the old version was in then >> users would continue to use the same profile. We are currently seeing >> an edge case where that is breaking right now on Windows but I'm >> expecting to have that fixed before Firefox 68 ships. >> >> There is currently no policy setting to disable this feature, there >> is currently an environment variable that can be set (though it's >> targeted at a different use case right now, so if important I'd like >> to use a different name for it) but it applies to any version and >> channel of Firefox. > > What is the environment variable and what does it need to be set to for > disabling dedicated profiles ? > > Thanks > > James Pearson > _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
