<div dir="ltr">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?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 2:43 PM mhoye <<a href="mailto:mhoye@mozilla.com">mhoye@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div>
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<div>From: "Dave Townsend" <<a href="mailto:dtownsend@mozilla.com" target="_blank">dtownsend@mozilla.com</a>></div>
<div>To: "dev-platform" <<a href="mailto:dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org" target="_blank">dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org</a>>; "Firefox Dev" <<a href="mailto:firefox-dev@mozilla.org" target="_blank">firefox-dev@mozilla.org</a>></div>
<div>Sent: 2018-10-18 3:32:36 PM</div>
<div>Subject: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection</div><div><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div></blockquote><div id="m_2028166508001981575x5d1f35b7ee5d4bd"><br></div><div id="m_2028166508001981575x5d1f35b7ee5d4bd">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.</div><div id="m_2028166508001981575x5d1f35b7ee5d4bd"><br></div><div id="m_2028166508001981575x5d1f35b7ee5d4bd"><br></div><div id="m_2028166508001981575x5d1f35b7ee5d4bd">- mhoye</div></div>
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