On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:43 PM Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:31 AM Tom Ritter <t...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:32 PM Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> >> > wrote: >> > > For cases where users manually downgrade an install of Firefox or attempt >> > > to forcefully use an older version of Firefox with a newer profile the >> > > profile downgrade protection feature will now tell the user that the >> > > profile is too new to use with this Firefox giving them the option to >> > > create a new profile to use or to quit. >> >> >> If you have multiple channels installed, and have them all start with >> -P for profile selection, it seems like this downgrade protection >> mechanism might trigger if you select the wrong profile for the >> channel you started. That would lead to confusion. > > > Well one benefit of these changes is that you wouldn't need to run with -P > any longer, each installed channel will be able to have its own default > profile. And throwing a warning when you try to open your nightly profile > with beta is definitely intended.
Well, if all you're using -P for is to separate profiles-by-channels, then yea you can get rid of it, but one might have multiple profiles/per channel. (And yea, the warning in that case is definitely intended.) >> Maybe we could detect if the user started with -P, and if so change >> the error message to intelligently guide the user in that case? > > Guide them in what way? Instead of saying "The profile is too new to use with this Firefox. Create a new profile or Quit" maybe something like "The profile is too new to use with this Firefox. Restart and choose a different profile or Create a new profile" -tom _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
