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

[Dave Townsend]

Currently as long as SNAP_NAME is defined to something it will disable
profiles-per-install, but there is an intention to replace that method of
detecting snap packaged so I can't guarantee that that will exist long-term.

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:50 AM James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>
wrote:

> 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
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