Hello Mark, I believe you can disable this functionality by setting the environment variable "MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES" in the operating system. As I understand it, by having this value present (set to anything?) Firefox will not create a new profile for new Firefox version.
-Joel On 8/12/2019 7:32 AM, Lavrijsen, Mark via Enterprise wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For years we have been using application virtualisation, different > config files(the most important one for this question profiles.ini). > > In profiles.ini we have this: > > [General] > > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > [Profile0] > > Name=User > > IsRelative=0 > > Path=h:\FireFox > > Default=1 > > > > The H:\ drive is the user Windows networkdrive. For years now this > resulted in 0-hassle experience for our users. New users got their > Firefox profile created in h:\Firefox. Regardless of where they logged > on(VDI/TS/Computers) , they had their Firefox profile. > > > > Now, since Firefox 67, this would not work anymore because of the new > “profile per install” feature. This is due to the nature of > Application Virtualisation where the package is loaded from virtual > filesystem(that is not really for example c:\Program files\Mozilla > Firefox, but there are some random GUID’s used – although normally the > software isn’t aware of this). > > > > But regardless of what App-V or Firefox under the hood do, I just want > firefox to honour what is in profiles.ini. What is now does is create > a Firefox profile(a separate one, on every computer) under the Windows > user profile, but that is useless. > > > > Does anybody know a way of disabling “Profile per install” or another > way to work around this problem? > > Thank you in advance! > > > > --Mark Lavrijsen > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Wat ik vandaag doe doet er toe! Zet jij ook jouw talent in voor water > in Brabant. Kijk voor onze actuele vacatures op v*acatures* > <https://www.dommel.nl/algemeen/werken-bij-ons/vacature-overzicht.html> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
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