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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I like the proposal but I don't like
new prefs (even new profiles.ini prefs), nor do I think the
profile manager is a great place to put them.<br>
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Why do we need a pref?<br>
<br>
Separately, IIRC there are differences in behaviour between
startup-of-firefox-with-only-one-profile-defined and
startup-of-firefox-with-multiple-profiles-defined . Am I
misremembering? If not, are we OK with those consequences for
users who use both release and aurora/nightly?<br>
<br>
Finally, what if, on a machine with 0 profiles:<br>
<br>
- I download nightly/aurora and use it. This creates a profile. Is
that going to be "default" or "default aurora/nightly" ?<br>
- I then download beta/release and use it. Does that reuse the
aurora/nightly profile (which is the only one), or does it create
its own profile?<br>
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~ Gijs<br>
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On 21/05/2014 18:59, Gavin Sharp wrote:<br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span class="">The problem:
testing Aurora/Nightly builds side-by-side with your
"normal" Firefox requires some manual profile management,
which is a barrier for web developers and other testers who
want to just download-and-run.<br>
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This problem has been discussed here before. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=895030">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=895030</a>
covers one proposal, and previous threads here include:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-July/000574.html">https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-July/000574.html</a>
(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/firefox-dev/P6lyKEaSRbM/discussion">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firefox-dev/P6lyKEaSRbM/discussion</a>)<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-July/000560.html">https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-July/000560.html</a>
(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/firefox-dev/23sGBTc_rM0/discussion">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firefox-dev/23sGBTc_rM0/discussion</a>)<br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span class="">Here's a new
proposal that I've come up with, which is a modification of
a revised proposal that Jeff Griffiths and the devtools
folks came up with:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:GavinSharp/Profile-proposal">https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:GavinSharp/Profile-proposal</a><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span class="">One of the
benefits of this proposal is that it does not affect
existing Nightly/Aurora users.<br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span class="">I'd like broader
feedback on this proposal before we move to implement.<br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span class=""><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid2">
<span class="">Gavin<br>
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