On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 04:42:05PM -0700, Dave Townsend wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Aki Sasaki <asas...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > I'm a Nightly only user who periodically uses Release, and I'm not > > thrilled with the idea of my profile going away. Nightly users are probably > > better suited to dealing with this (using sync, etc) than the Beta > > population. Aiui, some Beta users aren't conscious Beta users, just people > > chosen to be in the Beta population when first installing Firefox; they may > > be less prepared to deal with their profile going away. > > > > Which is why I really want us to consider creating the profile using some > or all of the existing default profile data. It adds an extra step to the > work but means that most users who only run with one profile will see > essentially no change to their workflow.
Except they'd have a stale unused profile taking disk space for nothing. > > Have we considered changing the "*Close Firefox* Only one copy..." alert > > to a profile switcher dialog, with a message like "Another copy of Firefox > > is using this profile. Use another profile?" > > > > I need to look up what circumstances this dialog appears in. On Windows for > example trying to run Nightly when Beta is already open should just open a > new Beta window currently causing some surprise. This is actually the most annoying behavior of the remote service, at least for me on Linux. Not sure what actually happens on other platforms. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
