On 18/03/2016 11:47, Tobias B. Besemer wrote:
If I use my main profile in Aurora, it updates FF immediately to the Nightly
Version because the update channel is saved in the profile!
Is this really necessary/right this way?
I mean: Why not save the update channel in the FF installation (folder) ???
Saving the update channel in the profiles makes it impossible to use them with
a older/other version of FF!
If somebody do it anyway (by mistake) it f*cks up his installation!
The default value of all prefs is stored in the installation. Custom
values are stored in your profile. Firefox's core code does not save
custom values for the update channel pref at any time:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=update.channel+-path%3Ab2g+-path%3Amozconfig+-path%3Atest+-path%3A.sh+-path%3A.nsi+-channelid&redirect=false&case=false
The logical conclusion being, if there is a custom value for this
preference in your profile, either you put it there through about:config
or by editing prefs.js, or some add-on did this.
> I don't know what happened to the new profile manager...
> (Why was he removed/deactivated again ???)
> ....but with a new & better profile manager and the update channel
saved in the installation of FF - not the profiles - it would be e.g.
possible that a person can save his FF profile on a flash drive and use
it on any other computer!
>
> A option like "Load a not listed profile" in the profile manager to
open a profile folder e.g. on a flash drive, should make this (in
future) possible....
>
It was disabled/removed because there were too many regressions compared
to the shipping profile manager. I don't know what the current status is.
> - The toolbars (show/not show) and the icons (and possition of them)
got not synced between the profiles!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=943182
~ Gijs
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