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

[Dave Townsend]

(sorry if this doesn't thread right, I only just joined this list)

Regarding how the dedicated profiles per install feature works, there is
currently no difference between how it works on normal Firefox builds and
ESR.

New versions of Firefox are not new installations. The installation is
defined by the installation directory.

As long as you are upgrading the Firefox version by putting the new version
into the same directory that the old version was in then users would
continue to use the same profile. We are currently seeing an edge case
where that is breaking right now on Windows but I'm expecting to have that
fixed before Firefox 68 ships.

There is currently no policy setting to disable this feature, there is
currently an environment variable that can be set (though it's targeted at
a different use case right now, so if important I'd like to use a different
name for it) but it applies to any version and channel of Firefox.
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