+1000

I am constantly killing my profile by downgrading it when I need to test
something on Firefox Stable. Switching between Chrome releases couldnt be
easier but even as a Firefox Dev switching between profiles when testing a
different version is a nightmare, I cant imagine how unfriendly it is for
typical web developers.


On 8 April 2015 at 20:52, Jonathan Griffin <jgrif...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> There is also an old, unmaintained GUI for managing profiles:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Profile_Manager
>
> It still works, although there are a few bugs.  It may be an improvement
> over command-line arguments for less technical users.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> wrote:
>
> > I think you can get this fairly easily by just changing one of the
> > values (Vendor or Name) in build/application.ini such that a different
> > profile folder is used.
> >
> > Gavin
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:28 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org>
> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 2015-04-08 12:08 -0700, Seth Fowler wrote:
> > >> I think one way we could reduce the burden on users would be to just
> > make try builds default to a different profile than channel builds.
> > >
> > > Is there a simple patch one could push to change this default, and
> > > just include on any try pushes where you need this behavior?
> > >
> > > I'm a little nervous about making try builds differ from other
> > > trees, since that just increases the risk of bustage (or bugs in
> > > testing) that shows up in one place but not the other.
> > >
> > > -David
> > >
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