[Mozilla Enterprise] Install/Uninstall/Update distribution

[Fjoerfoks]

Consider to start with a brand new profile, maybe with a webpage on how to
export and import favorites.

Wim

Op vr 22 nov. 2019 12:52 schreef Dimas Streich (Informàtica Trueta) <
dstreich.girona.ics at gencat.cat>:

> To make it a little more complicated I need to have an extension that open
> some URLs in Internet Explorer. With 52 ESR we have IEView, a XUL
> extension. Mozilla published a "Legacy browser support" extension that can
> do the same, but it only seems compatible with Firefox 68 ESR. If I need to
> update first to 60 ESR how can I do it?
>
> The only thing I can think of is:
> 1a. Uninstall Firefox 52 ESR
> 1b. Install Firefox 60 ESR
> 1c. Install "IE View WE" extension (buggy)
> .... wait users to use 60 for a bookmarks/history migration ....
> 2a. Uninstall "IE View WE" extension
> 2b. Uninstall Firefox 60 ESR
> 2c. Install Firefox 68 ESR
>
> *NIGHTMARE!*
>
> El 22/11/2019 a les 0:02, Paul Kosinski via Enterprise ha escrit:
>
> Version 68 really should be able to read old database files from before
> version 60. Obviously the conversion is possible, since the two step
> upgrade works (I presume).
>
> Otherwise, I can easily see some users trying to go from (e.g.) 52 to
> 68, losing years of bookmarks and then saying: "Firefox is junk, I'm
> switching to Chrome".
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:33:52 -0800
> Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com> <mkaply at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>
> Yeah, definitely need to go to 60 before 68 or you will lose
> history/bookmarks (changes to the database).
>
> And if you uninstall 32/reinstall 64, the directory name will be an
> issue unless you use Program Files (x86) for both.
>
> I did add a GPO for LegacyProfiles for Windows only. Other platforms,
> you need to set the environment variable
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 8:55 AM Kris Lou via Enterprise <enterprise at mozilla.org> wrote:
>
>
> Also, the change to x64 will likely run afoul of "one profiles per
> installation," where by installing to a different location
> (%programfiles% vs %programfiles(x86)%) will cause Firefox to
> create a NEW user profile, per user.  Setting the environmental
> variable "MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES" (to 1, or anything) will avoid this,
> but I don't recall if it made it to GPO.
>
> Kris Louklou at themusiclink.net
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:50 AM James M. Pulver <jmp242 at cornell.edu> <jmp242 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
>
>
> I will say, I had major profile issues going on (one) PC from
> ESR52 to 68. You need to have v60 migrate the user profiles before
> going to 68 or will need to delete all the user profiles before
> going to 68.
>
> --
> James Pulver
> CLASSE Computer Group
> Cornell University
>
> On 11/20/19 7:22 AM, Dimas Streich (Informàtica Trueta) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Actually we've Firefox 52 ESR installed on over a 1500 PCs and I
> want
>
> to
>
> update to 68 ESR.
>
> When distributing Firefox with SCCM, is it more secure to update
> previous version by installing the new version over it, or is it
> better to previously uninstall the old version? I've read people
> doing one or other thing, but is there an official
> recommendation?
>
> Plus that, I'd like to update the x32 versions to x64 where is
>
> possible.
>
> In this case, is it always better to uninstall the x32 version?
>
> Thx
> --
>
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