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<p class="MsoNormal">FYI on possible bug in disabling per user profiles.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steve<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Enterprise <enterprise-bounces@mozilla.org> <b>
On Behalf Of </b>Mike Kaply<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 20, 2019 11:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lavrijsen, Mark <mlavrijsen@dommel.nl><br>
<b>Cc:</b> enterprise@mozilla.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] disable "Profile per Install"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you open a bugzilla bug for this please?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&component=Startup%20and%20Profile%20System">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&component=Startup%20and%20Profile%20System</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:24 AM Lavrijsen, Mark via Enterprise <<a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org">enterprise@mozilla.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">Hello Joel(and possibly others),</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">Thank you for the response, and pointing me in the right direction.</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">I created the (system)environment variable(set to “1”) and now it seems to work better,
I think(not sure ).</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">What happens now is that the first time it launches, it still creates the profile in the
Windows user Profile(wrong location).</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">The second launch however, it uses h:\Firefox as expected.
</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">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.</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">As we have no roaming profiles, this essentially means that it’s still unusable.</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">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 .</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">If anybody has more insight, it would be very welcome.</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">--Mark</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="NL">Van:</span></b><span lang="NL"> Enterprise <<a href="mailto:enterprise-bounces@mozilla.org" target="_blank">enterprise-bounces@mozilla.org</a>>
<b>Namens </b>Joel Baltazor<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> maandag 12 augustus 2019 15:09<br>
<b>Aan:</b> '<a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org" target="_blank">enterprise@mozilla.org</a>' <<a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org" target="_blank">enterprise@mozilla.org</a>><br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] disable "Profile per Install"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="NL">Hello Mark,<br>
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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.<br>
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-Joel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="NL">On 8/12/2019 7:32 AM, Lavrijsen, Mark via Enterprise wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">Hello,</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">For years we have been using application virtualisation, different config files(the most
important one for this question profiles.ini).</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">In profiles.ini we have this:</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;color:#0076A5",serif">[General]</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;color:#0076A5",serif">StartWithLastProfile=1</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;color:#0076A5",serif">[Profile0]</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;color:#0076A5",serif">IsRelative=0</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;color:#0076A5",serif">Path=h:\FireFox</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New ;color:#0076A5",serif">Default=1</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">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.</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">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). </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5"> </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">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.
</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">Does anybody know a way of disabling “Profile per install” or another way to work around
this problem? </span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">Thank you in advance!</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A5">--Mark Lavrijsen</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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