[Mozilla Enterprise] [EXTERNAL] Re: Transfer profile from 32-bit to 64-bit during upgrade?

[Harkins, Steve]

               Mike,

If we’re changing from 32-bit to 64-bit, Firefox won’t be in the same directory (C:\Program Files, instead of C:\Program Files (x86).  The profile, however, sould be in the same directory.  And I only used 80.0.1 because I couldn’t find another 32-bit version.


Regards,
Steve

From: Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2020 10:16 AM
To: Harkins, Steve <sharkins at ti.com>
Cc: enterprise at mozilla.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Transfer profile from 32-bit to 64-bit during upgrade?

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:35 AM Harkins, Steve via Enterprise <enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>> wrote:
               Hello,

We are currently packaging 78.2.0 ESR 64-bit for our internal electronic software distribution, and during my testing of the package, I notice that if I install over a 32-bit version of Firefox (like 80.0.1) and I have saved bookmarks, after installing 64-bit, those bookmarks are gone.  Is there a to preserve bookmarks when upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Are you installing into the same directory? It definitely should keep those. Although it looks like you are doing a downgrade (80 to 72) which should be giving an error.


In the past we had used the MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES=1 value in environment variables to get the bookmarks, but it appears that no longer works.

Downgrades use a different variable:

From https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/understanding-depth-profile-installation

The downgrade blocking can be bypassed by setting the environment variable MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE or by passing the --allow-downgrade command line argument when running Firefox.

How can we make sure that users don’t lose their bookmarks and other settings when upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit?  Thanks.


Regards,
Steve Harkins
Texas Instruments, Inc
IT Operations & Infrastructure
Client Engineering
214-567-8232
sharkins at ti.com<mailto:sharkins at ti.com>

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