[Mozilla Enterprise] [EXTERNAL] Re: disable "Profile per Install"

[Harkins, Steve]

FYI on possible bug in disabling per user profiles.


Regards,
Steve

From: Enterprise <enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org> On Behalf Of Mike Kaply
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 11:35 AM
To: Lavrijsen, Mark <mlavrijsen at dommel.nl>
Cc: enterprise at mozilla.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] disable "Profile per Install"

Can you open a bugzilla bug for this please?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&component=Startup%20and%20Profile%20System

Mike

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:24 AM Lavrijsen, Mark via Enterprise <enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>> wrote:
Hello Joel(and possibly others),

Thank you for the response, and pointing me in the right direction.

I created the (system)environment variable(set to “1”) and now it seems to work better, I think(not sure ).

What happens now is that the first time it launches, it still creates the profile in the Windows user Profile(wrong location).
The second launch however, it uses h:\Firefox as expected.

When deleting the keys from HKCU\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Launcher(or App-V equivalent), it again doesn’t use h:\Firefox for the first time launch.
As we have no roaming profiles, this essentially means that it’s still unusable.

My conclusion is that with "MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES" Firefox still is eager to detect where firefox is installed and does not really honour profiles.ini .

If anybody has more insight, it would be very welcome.

--Mark


Van: Enterprise <enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org>> Namens Joel Baltazor
Verzonden: maandag 12 augustus 2019 15:09
Aan: 'enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>' <enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>>
Onderwerp: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] disable "Profile per Install"

Hello Mark,

I believe you can disable this functionality by setting the environment variable "MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES"  in the operating system.  As I understand it, by having this value present (set to anything?) Firefox will not create a new profile for new Firefox version.

-Joel
On 8/12/2019 7:32 AM, Lavrijsen, Mark via Enterprise wrote:
Hello,

For years we have been using application virtualisation, different config files(the most important one for this question profiles.ini).
In profiles.ini we have this:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=User
IsRelative=0
Path=h:\FireFox
Default=1

The H:\ drive is the user Windows networkdrive. For years now this resulted in 0-hassle experience for our users. New users got their Firefox profile created in h:\Firefox. Regardless of where they logged on(VDI/TS/Computers) , they had their Firefox profile.

Now, since Firefox 67, this would not work anymore because of the new “profile per install” feature. This is due to the nature of Application Virtualisation where the package is loaded from virtual filesystem(that is not really for example c:\Program files\Mozilla Firefox, but there are some random GUID’s used – although normally the software isn’t aware of this).

But regardless of what App-V or Firefox under the hood do, I just want firefox to honour what is in profiles.ini. What is now does is create a Firefox profile(a separate one, on every computer) under the Windows user profile, but that is useless.

Does anybody know a way of disabling “Profile per install” or another way to work around this problem?
Thank you in advance!

--Mark Lavrijsen
mlavrijsen at dommel.nl<mailto:mlavrijsen at dommel.nl>


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