With all the recent discussions about version and profile migration headaches, I posted a feature suggestion on BugZilla for a separate profile migrator tool that can upgrade specific FF profiles from source version to any specific version. If you think this may help in your situation please comment or offer any suggestions or different ideas. Thanks.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598664 > I (and probably a lot of enterprise admins) would like separate profile > migrator tool (not a Firefox.exe switch) that can upgrade specific FF profiles > from source version to any specific version. Bonus points for not requiring > to update it more than once... i.e. 52-->60-->68. Extra bonus points for > allowing the latest tool version to upgrade to a specific in-between version. > Extra bonus points for allowing a profile to be downgraded to an older > version too. -- Scott Copus, Desktop Support Systems Engineer Information Technology Services | Western Kentucky University https://www.wku.edu/its -----Original Message----- From: Enterprise <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Andrew J. Buehler Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Install/Uninstall/Update distribution ** This message originated from outside WKU. Always use caution following links. ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2019-11-21 at 15:58, Copus, Scott wrote: > Rather than allowing users to experience Firefox profile > upgrades/migrations upon browser launch following an upgrade, what > would be the possibility for the installer itself to perform this > profile upgrade work for all local accounts found on the system? > I figure this is a bad design idea, but just throwing it out > there.... This would run into problems with existing Firefox profiles which are not on the system at the time of the install - Windows roaming profiles, for example, or an *nix system for which directories under /home are mounted from network shares automatically at login time. (I don't know of any real-world examples of the latter, but the concept seems sound, and I'd like to use such a system at least once in my life.) For that purpose, an ability to migrate post-install would still be needed, and launch-time is a reasonable point for carrying out that migration. That said, however: > Barring this, is there an external profile migration tool (binary) > that can upgrade a specified profile folder if an organization > wanted to script this into their environment (i.e. something > command-line only that would not involve launching the browser > itself)? An ability to trigger migration of a specified profile without having to have the Firefox UI appear - possibly even when an instance of Firefox (presumably with another profile) is already running - could indeed be useful; I might well find a use for such a thing in my own workplace environment. I'm not aware of such a thing already existing, but I would be glad to see it become available. - -- Andrew J. Buehler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJJBAEBCgAzFiEEJCOqsZEc2qVC44pUBKk1jTQoMmsFAl3XY68VHHdhbmRlcmVy QGZhc3RtYWlsLmZtAAoJEASpNY00KDJrBVcP/Au6PGxrGUCfQqKFKAR8hbDMJ4W1 IAjEDyzQMDR7f3782tbOgGnvh1Y8ig85gZaQg3B62AsqcKSXR5uszNIbZ6KGrdA+ uqV7qe/O5aUEy0axgxWEatLR+v7/gjQ9Kh7mRGczh3qrtokKfdGwHvkJfqnIgjbA aCdGcY9b7V/8losFKWQNnZBEOmABdehQNw5/t5SfLn36pdnZSSXVyLlteo7tpVu0 Q0d+ZikZO19csSS2z0HNRkF5cNi5Rw5hWI965BZAlxfkvrgfgGfg1u222ohSn+jB 2506OdYOi/eDFFzqOHPrd/NF7YVHAXI6mjjYSXCKw0iAsnfjWwgKkX5D+aST8nN8 YN8ElxTeh7ui06FfcohMWphIXPaL2wOSvOvsUNnqz7AvS+jc95IDFcC0LvNbiPza vQNA0Oa9W9+TeYwS28jK9TS2FuQC4IuWZte9IFEr5BgdphatRKbLxR2BMavARkAy 1M+Xc8XmM4CwmkbhG0dr0KbAMoxXj4NZFLdCh8hDGnfBbOPu/iksD9HLRybVQzcQ 5Szp5LoYAJsls1vUplAkDR+uojKHcz/NvLV43GUu2Szuf8C63F6ctUi38arsDTAn ixGv21+S/gxiMKvnzue38bvAlUSOnoB0uiVp8AiMjmDPycrAtXttJgYF7S3CBy/e qpRsay9n0QzHL6JW =Aa3D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
