-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2020-11-11 at 10:45, Mike Kaply wrote:
> When we upgrade or install 64 bit Firefox, if a 32 bit Firefox is > there, we use the same directory. > > So my recommendation would be that you not uninstall and then > reinstall, but simply install or let the upgrades happen. Unfortunately, that would A: leave 64-bit Firefox installed in the 32-bit program hierarchy, which is undesirable just on general principles, and B: mean that machines which got a clean install would have Firefox installed under a different path from machines which got upgraded, which is undesirable not only from general principles but also because it would make managing configuration and uninstalls and the like harder (which path do we need to install distribution\policies.json under? which path do we need to look under to trigger the uninstall helper? etc.). I can see why people might choose to go this route, but it really does not sit well with me. > Unfortunately Windows didn't make this situation easy. - From my perspective, at least at a glance, Windows' contribution to the situation seems relatively minor. It also seems to me as if it shouldn't be too difficult to implement the behavior I'd prefer within Firefox, relative to the behaviors that already exist; it just apparently hasn't been done. That's a moot point for the case at hand, because my organization isn't going to wait for a new Firefox release before upgrading even if that new release would include this behavior, but it could still be helpful for others. What we'll probably wind up doing is setting the "use legacy profiles" flag, running with that for a year or three, and then eventually turning it off and fixing up any broken profiles that get discovered after that point manually. That's far from ideal, both because of the risk of having those broken profiles and because we'll be locked out of profile-per-install for that long, but it's probably the best we're going to be able to manage. I do also still think that a way to explicitly tell Firefox to import a specific existing profile's contents into the current (new) profile would be useful, including in other contexts. - -- Andrew J. Buehler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJJBAEBCgAzFiEEJCOqsZEc2qVC44pUBKk1jTQoMmsFAl+soIwVHHdhbmRlcmVy QGZhc3RtYWlsLmZtAAoJEASpNY00KDJraVEP/RRuTR+MSouftHZ7wdsQcqYkiuBE sd1VvMXXFqDPWLNXer5qGRH4z9B3Ch7O6Prn7NwIQ0wmJwwgH+d37s+WlYxmLqF6 /G/UOOX6h8gs7L56iklvRX6gLhmE5LzDKLZL6O+IFU7ZvFBScAEOE87hJiS7viFN 0kiJ/Xvao+Mf14cNFsKb6uFB8Q1hSbGW4PvDDLyalmjnuRbZqQAk0UcUIYiVkaIp +vm6DuOndCPGFSdxx0sS+C0zvIgAjhn5UseR85IuZ4riOdUMkbeO1mVQv6v3FJr4 RQYFJ7MdRBekkEAaLghOLtzZ1PktVmqGz52m7EZczzTZZWQUXzDzuWViMb83LRTd SIAO16UseX1BRqH9OaGCXE2IenSs5pZ5Asm4gd4dYOmGex1VWSM7XGm9/vuOvmNq T8XOLklQap18e82JUcIQSXOzlKjXTDI/Aa/EAY2hz8xOUpBPygtNN2f5S9Z4UhzX vl5DYZzFefDjbb/miHgfg2yp49sIALQ8YvFfP1wZ4bTu7FhOpm7oFpXlJWnHLeN7 x98CaNVWgomopaN2G7jTXNMFbBvMJwo0YKPtiaiAS+XTeTsfmg+vlrZ7EEwYyfsM iCl4ZJYn+ofQXhkkVvJLGScke/7meTB1QV5BCeHvAkkbEhptFbvnfhG3W061Ec8+ fV79OMFqYWZ2e6GA =bi0X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to enterprise-requ...@mozilla.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"
