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

Thu Sep 5 12:39:42 UTC 2019

If one has any problem with a newer firefox version (broken internal 
web-sites or whatever), one might has to rollback to an older version.

For individual users ok, but in an corporate environment troubleshooting 
hundred or even more broken firefox-Profiles for users might lead to 
even more hassle.

Kind regards,
Bardo Wolf

On 05.09.19 08:46, Timo Pietilä wrote:
> 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
>>      >> --
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