Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

[bruno ais]

>
> The old profile is not deleted though.
>
Ok, thanks.That's what I wanted to confirm.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:05 PM Dave Townsend <dtownsend at mozilla.com> wrote:

> The new profile will be clean and empty. Since we know the previous
> profile is from a newer version of Firefox there isn't a way to copy its
> data without running the same risks as current downgrades. Users can use
> Firefox Sync if they want to share data between profiles. The old profile
> is not deleted though.
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:02 AM bruno ais <brunoaiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When creating a new profile to accomodate the downgrade, is the previous
>> data deleted? Are there options to keep the old profile for just in case or
>> selecting to use a new profile cleans the old one completely?
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 2:43 PM mhoye <mhoye at mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>> From: "Dave Townsend" <dtownsend at mozilla.com>
>>> To: "dev-platform" <dev-platform at lists.mozilla.org>; "Firefox Dev" <
>>> firefox-dev at mozilla.org>
>>> Sent: 2018-10-18 3:32:36 PM
>>> Subject: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and
>>> Profile Downgrade Protection
>>>
>>> In Firefox 65 we intend to ship two new features to help prevent user
>>> frustration caused by using profiles created by newer versions of Firefox.
>>>
>>>
>>> This has been a serious problem from a community participation
>>> perspective for a while now. Making it safe and easy to flip back and forth
>>> between versions of Firefox will make casual participation in testing and
>>> QA, among many other things, hugely easier and more accessible; I'm quite
>>> grateful that we're doing this work.
>>>
>>>
>>> - mhoye
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