Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Install/Uninstall/Update distribution

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:53:35 -0800

To make it a little more complicated I need to have an extension that open some URLs in Internet Explorer. With 52 ESR we have IEView, a XUL extension. Mozilla published a "Legacy browser support" extension that can do the same, but it only seems compatible with Firefox 68 ESR. If I need to update first to 60 ESR how can I do it?

The only thing I can think of is:
1a. Uninstall Firefox 52 ESR
1b. Install Firefox 60 ESR
1c. Install "IE View WE" extension (buggy)
.... wait users to use 60 for a bookmarks/history migration ....
2a. Uninstall "IE View WE" extension
2b. Uninstall Firefox 60 ESR
2c. Install Firefox 68 ESR

NIGHTMARE!

El 22/11/2019 a les 0:02, Paul Kosinski via Enterprise ha escrit:
Version 68 really should be able to read old database files from before
version 60. Obviously the conversion is possible, since the two step
upgrade works (I presume).

Otherwise, I can easily see some users trying to go from (e.g.) 52 to
68, losing years of bookmarks and then saying: "Firefox is junk, I'm
switching to Chrome".


On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:33:52 -0800
Mike Kaply <[email protected]> wrote:


Yeah, definitely need to go to 60 before 68 or you will lose
history/bookmarks (changes to the database).

And if you uninstall 32/reinstall 64, the directory name will be an
issue unless you use Program Files (x86) for both.

I did add a GPO for LegacyProfiles for Windows only. Other platforms,
you need to set the environment variable

Mike

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 8:55 AM Kris Lou via Enterprise <
[email protected]> wrote:


Also, the change to x64 will likely run afoul of "one profiles per
installation," where by installing to a different location
(%programfiles% vs %programfiles(x86)%) will cause Firefox to
create a NEW user profile, per user.  Setting the environmental
variable "MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES" (to 1, or anything) will avoid this,
but I don't recall if it made it to GPO.

Kris Lou
[email protected]


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:50 AM James M. Pulver <[email protected]>
wrote:


I will say, I had major profile issues going on (one) PC from
ESR52 to 68. You need to have v60 migrate the user profiles before
going to 68 or will need to delete all the user profiles before
going to 68.

--
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University

On 11/20/19 7:22 AM, Dimas Streich (Informàtica Trueta) wrote:

Hi,

Actually we've Firefox 52 ESR installed on over a 1500 PCs and I
want

to

update to 68 ESR.

When distributing Firefox with SCCM, is it more secure to update
previous version by installing the new version over it, or is it
better to previously uninstall the old version? I've read people
doing one or other thing, but is there an official
recommendation?

Plus that, I'd like to update the x32 versions to x64 where is

possible.

In this case, is it always better to uninstall the x32 version?

Thx
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