[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox 67.0 changes result in much head-banging

[Timo Pietilä]

In case you need to downgrade for for example add-on compatibility or a 
bug that Mozilla has in new version but not in older (not unheard of).

Sometimes security comes next in corporate environments.

Timo Pietilä

On 4.9.2019 18.36, Mike Kaply wrote:
> Why do you want downgrade protection turned off?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 3:18 AM Bardo Wolf <b.wolf at uib.de 
> <mailto:b.wolf at uib.de>> wrote:
> 
>     It would be helpfull if
> 
> 
>     1) "Dedicated profiles per Firefox installation"  / "Profile per
>     Install" will be turned off for Firefox ESR
> 
>     2) Same for "Downgrade Protection" (turned off for Firefox ESR).
> 
>     Kind regards,
>     Bardo Wolf
> 
> 
> 
>     On 03.09.19 17:31, Mike Kaply wrote:
>      > That bug will only help Windows. This can't easily be moved to a
>     pref.
>      >
>      > I'm considering turning it off completely for the ESR.
>      >
>      > Mike
>      >
>      > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 9:50 AM Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es
>     <mailto:luca at wetron.es>> wrote:
>      >
>      >> El 3/9/19 a les 16:48, Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
>      >>> El 23/5/19 a les 21:44, Stephen Dowdy ha escrit:
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>> First: The "Profile per Install" really screws me up, as i
>     have an NFS
>      >>>> shared linux environment where users get firefox via
>      >>>> /usr/local/firefox which is a symbolic link to
>      >>>> /usr/local/firefox-{version} (e.g. firefox-67.0).   I use autofs
>      >>>> automounter also, but the resolved-realpath changes for every
>     release,
>      >>>> and so the code is going to "help me out" by generating a
>     spankin' new
>      >>>> Profile for all my users all the time.  That's entirely untenable.
>      >>>> I've updated bug:
>      >>>>
>      >>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528082
>      >>>>
>      >>>> asking for something more than a proposed Environment Variable
>      >>>> (hopefully mozilla.cfg admin pref) to keep this from happening.
>      >>>
>      >>> It seems nobody took into account your comment. The bug has
>     been closed
>      >>> with only the environment variable implementation and 68.0 esr is
>      >>> looming closer.
>      >>
>      >> There's another bug open
>      >>
>      >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577330
>      >>
>      >> Bye
>      >> --
>      >> Luca Olivetti
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