[Mozilla Enterprise] Policies (w/GPO) feedback and questions

[Mike Kaply]

There have been requests for bookmarks to be located somewhere else, but
since history and bookmarks are intertwined, it's not as easy as it was a
long time ago.

And you're right, the downside to pointing to one directory for everything
is that roaming and local are combined. I don't know of a way around this.

Mike

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/03/18 13:04, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
> > FWIW, on Linux, i do:
> >
> >     firefox -CreateProfile "${ff_prof_name}" -new-instance -no-remote
> >
> > to create a new profile programmatically.  Of course, this defaults to
> > creating it in the HOME directory hierarchy, but you could subsequently
> > move that and symlink to the new location, or modify profile.ini with
> > non-relative pathing.
> >
>
> I resolved the issue creating the folder, it's not an issue there.
>
> The problem is when using profiles.ini on Windows it moves *everything*
> over to the destination. Prior it would have the cache in the
> user/appdata/local dir and other bits with the bookmarks in
> user/appdata/roaming. After using profile.ini it relocates everything
> including the cache as I found out in small scale testing.
>
> As an organization we do not need to backup all of the profile, the only
> thing we need are the bookmarks file instead of terabytes of data in the
> rest of the profile.
>
> Windows does have ability to redirect the entire appdata/roaming
> directory but the other data really have no need to be on the file server.
>
> Surely our organization isn't the only one that wants to redirect
> bookmarks only?
>
> I am wondering if my original idea of a symlink is better, as I could
> redirect the appdata/roaming/Mozilla directory without moving all the
> rest of the information as well.
>
> Has there been a feature request to be able to redirect bookmarks only
> for the ESR versions?
>
> Dan
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