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<p>Okay, thank you everybody. I think we've gathered enough
information to say "we decided to do this knowing that not doing
it was an option" and that's all I was really looking for.</p>
<p>GL<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/07/19 15:16, Geoff Lankow wrote:<br>
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<p>(That's the "You’ve launched an older version of Firefox"
dialog.)<br>
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<p>In <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535116">bug
1535116</a> we've proposed to change the text in the dialog to
better suit Thunderbird. That's easy enough.</p>
<p>Magnus also wants me to change the "Create New Profile" to
instead open the Profile Manager. That's not as easy as it
sounds. The proper way to do it is through nsAppRunner.cpp.
We're in a pre-startup state (although we do have XPCOM).
Technically we <i>could</i> show the Profile Manager window and
mimic the expected results, but I'm not comfortable with that.</p>
<p>I digress. My point is: why do we have this thing at all? Is
there a good reason we want to go to these lengths, other than
Downgrading Is A Bad Idea™? It can be removed with <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/679db3c87c1a356a66433d6c2adf6fca1f20789f/mail/moz.configure#75">a
one line config change</a>.</p>
<p>GL</p>
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