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

[Bardo Wolf]

On 05.09.19 14:48, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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.

yep, I know,

firefox.exe --allow-downgrade

should work, one can put it somehow in all desktop links, in all windows 
standardbrowser stuff and whatever is running,

one can also use

environment variable
MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE = 1

and so on.

> 
> 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.

I understand, that working with Stone Age-profiles/prefs.js can lead to 
troubles and cumbersome erros.

But nevertheless,  I would prefer for ESR-Builds regarding profiles the 
opposite behaviour as for the "standard"-firefox.

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