Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-19 Thread Tom Ritter
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:43 PM Dave Townsend wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:31 AM Tom Ritter wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:32 PM Dave Townsend >> > wrote: >> > > For cases where users manually downgrade an install of Firefox or attempt >> > > to forcefully use an older version of

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-19 Thread bruno ais
> > The old profile is not deleted though. > Ok, thanks.That's what I wanted to confirm. On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:05 PM Dave Townsend wrote: > The new profile will be clean and empty. Since we know the previous > profile is from a newer version of Firefox there isn't a way to copy its > data

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-19 Thread Dave Townsend
The new profile will be clean and empty. Since we know the previous profile is from a newer version of Firefox there isn't a way to copy its data without running the same risks as current downgrades. Users can use Firefox Sync if they want to share data between profiles. The old profile is not

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-19 Thread bruno ais
When creating a new profile to accomodate the downgrade, is the previous data deleted? Are there options to keep the old profile for just in case or selecting to use a new profile cleans the old one completely? On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 2:43 PM mhoye wrote: > > > -- Original Message -- >

Re: web-platform-tests that fail only in Firefox (from wpt.fyi data)

2018-10-19 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/19/18 8:42 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: That's a bit odd, the is in the markup and would be when running manually or under automation. Are you sure that explains the difference? Yes. I filed https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/issues/13625 -Boris

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-19 Thread Dave Townsend
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:31 AM Tom Ritter wrote: > Awesome! > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:32 PM Dave Townsend > wrote: > > > For cases where users manually downgrade an install of Firefox or > attempt > > > to forcefully use an older version of Firefox with a newer profile the > > > profile

Re: PSA: Dangling Commas landing part 2 - 20th Oct

2018-10-19 Thread Mark Banner
On 03/10/2018 15:45, Mark Banner wrote: Following the successful enabling of the ESLint comma-dangle rule for some of our javascript files, I am intending on enabling it for the rest on Friday 20th October. ... Bug 1486741 is the

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-19 Thread mhoye
-- Original Message -- From: "Dave Townsend" To: "dev-platform" ; "Firefox Dev" Sent: 2018-10-18 3:32:36 PM Subject: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection In Firefox 65 we intend to ship two new features to help prevent user

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-19 Thread Tom Ritter
Awesome! > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:32 PM Dave Townsend wrote: > > For cases where users manually downgrade an install of Firefox or attempt > > to forcefully use an older version of Firefox with a newer profile the > > profile downgrade protection feature will now tell the user that the > >

Re: web-platform-tests that fail only in Firefox (from wpt.fyi data)

2018-10-19 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:53 PM Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > On 10/13/18 3:27 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > > Fiddling with these rules can reveal lots > > more potential issues, and if you like I could provide reports on that too. > > I would be pretty interested in that, yes. In particular, a