[Mozilla Enterprise] Install/Uninstall/Update distribution

[Timo Pietilä]

On 22.11.2019 17.51, Paul Kosinski via Enterprise wrote:

> This may be OK for an individual, but shouldn't Enterprise software
> be centrally upgradable by the sysadmin for *all* the users at once? The
> recent changes to Firefox seem to keep requiring lots of attention by
> the *individual* users. (And the upgrade path doesn't seem to allow easy
> transition from version N-2 to version N, unlike with most software.)

I agree that this trend of individuals over corporate is alarming and 
not only about FF, it is seen in many other programs too. For Firefox I 
hope this is one-time case, the actual engine change happened between 53 
and 60 breaking a lot of things and I hope backward compatibility is now 
maintained from 60 onwards. You just need to figure out how to make this 
odd situation feasible to your users.

Frankly I think FF should be able to convert profiles from 52 to 68 and 
next profile-breaking version, and next and so on (60 could do it, why 
not 68), even if the direction is just one way. As you said it is only 
N-2 away from current version. But what is done is done, too late to fix 
things now.

Timo Pietilä