[Mozilla Enterprise] Downgrade Protection and Profile Per Installation in Firefox 68

[Mike Kaply]

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 <moondog at icsi.berkeley.edu> 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 <mkaply at mozilla.com> 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
>>
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