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

[The Wanderer]

On 2019-09-05 at 08:39, Bardo Wolf wrote:

> 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.

According to

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profiles-firefox-installation#w_what-happens-to-my-profile-if-i-downgrade-to-a-previous-version-of-firefox

downgrade protection can be disabled per-launch with the
"--allow-downgrade" option.

If you have a means of appending that to the launch shortcut for Firefox
(which is easy with e.g. ZENworks, but which I understand to be far
harder with e.g. SCCM), that could give you a way to avoid the issue on
downgrades even without changes to the release.

It would come with all the downsides which downgrade protection is
intended to avoid, of course, but that's a tradeoff you'd be choosing to
make.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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