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

[James Pearson]

Dave Townsend wrote:
> 
> (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.
What is the environment variable and what does it need to be set to for 
disabling dedicated profiles ?

Thanks

James Pearson