With profiles per installation, Firefox uses the install path to determine if there should be a different profile. So if Firefox 67 and Firefox 68 are in two different directories, they would use two different profiles.
So if Firefox is started from a different directory than before, it will create a new profile directory. You will be able to turn this off with an environment variable. Mike On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 3:40 AM James Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you explain what is meant by 'profiles per installation' ? > > We use Firefox (on Linux) by installing each new release of ESR in a > separate directory - which is available to all clients over NFS and use a > wrapper script to select which version to run (by default, it uses the most > recent version) > > With ESR 68 and above, will each of our separate installs require a > separate profile ? - or does 'installation' in this context mean Nightly, > Beta, ESR, etc ? > > Thanks > > James Pearson > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Enterprise [[email protected]] on behalf of Mike > Kaply [[email protected]] > *Sent:* 24 June 2019 22:23 > *To:* Jim Weill > *Cc:* Mozilla.org > *Subject:* Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Downgrade Protection and Profile Per > Installation in Firefox 68 > > The best explanation is here: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/hVeJSYjSnO4 > > (although it references Firefox 65 - this landed in Firefox 67) > > We blogged about it here as well: > > > https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/01/14/moving-to-a-profile-per-install-architecture/ > > Support info for profiles per installation is here: > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profiles-firefox-installation > > Mike > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 2:09 PM Jim Weill <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Is there a page with details on how these new features work? I don't >> know enough about the proposals to know whether we are affected. >> >> jim >> >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 1:40 PM Mike Kaply <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> With Firefox 68 two new features are being added; dedicated profiles per >>> Firefox installation and downgrade protection. These allow for simpler >>> on-boarding of beta and nightly users and also prevent users from hitting >>> profile corruption issues when switching between different >>> versions/channels of Firefox. >>> >>> Environment variables will be available in Firefox 68 to disable both >>> features and we are assessing whether this will be enough for ESR users to >>> maintain compatibility with their custom deployment configurations. >>> >>> It would be great if you could let us know of specific issues related to >>> these features that an environment variable would not allow addressing. >>> >>> Thanks for your input. >>> >>> Mike Kaply >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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" >>> >>
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