On Friday, December 18, 2015 at 5:16:00 PM UTC-5, Bobby Holley wrote: > I believe he means that the current profile manager isn't really > user-facing, since it needs to be enabled on the command line (at least > once): http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
It's true that it isn't a feature that is widely accessible, especially due to it's "hidden" nature. We do however have a support article on how to enable it on SuMo (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles) and we recommend enabling it to developers on MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Multiple_Firefox_Profiles). In addition to that there are many 3rd party websites that illustrate how to enable it. You can find them by searching for "Firefox Profiles". So it is still a shipping feature that at least some amount of people will encounter. > The current profile manager certainly doesn't meet our UX standards, so we > shouldn't try to make the replacement meet them either. That being said, we > should make sure it's no _less_ usable than the old one. I might disagree that we should take the status quo as a reason to not do better ;) But yes, my concerns are mostly around regressions. In its current state I think there are several ways the new profile chooser is less usable than the old one. - Stephen _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
