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.


> 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.
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