[Mozilla Enterprise] upcoming ESR 68 / Impact of "Dedicated profiles per Firefox installation"

[James Pearson]

Bardo Wolf wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> what is the impact of the new feature "Dedicated profiles per Firefox
> installation" is for the upcoming  ESR 68?
> 
> Is every ESR 68.x version a new version?
> 
> From
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profiles-firefox-installation#w_what-are-profiles 
> 
> it seems so:
> 
> "Beginning with Firefox version 67, Firefox will use a dedicated profile
> for each installation of Firefox (including Nightly, Beta, Developer
> Edition, and ESR installations)"
> 
> We deploy firefox on windows clients by removing/purgings old versions
> und redeploy firefox by choosing x86/x64 / language / Version (esr or
> standard, at the moment 60.7.0 or 67.0)
> 
> For upgrading to 67.0 we mad a ugly workaround creating the installs.ini
> and patching the profile.ini to prevent users from "loosing" their 
> profiles.
> 
> So from my point of view it would be great
> to have a policy or another scriptable way to disable the "dedicated
> profile" feature

There was an early posting to this list on this subject that referenced 
the bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528082>

I would also like to know how this is going to be handled in ESR 68 and 
whether or not it can be disabled

We can not have users moving from ESR 60 to ESR 68, or between different 
subsequent releases of ESR and have them 'losing' bookmarks, setting etc ...

Thanks

James Pearson