Hello Joel(and possibly others),

Thank you for the response, and pointing me in the right direction.

I created the (system)environment variable(set to "1") and now it seems to work 
better, I think(not sure ).

What happens now is that the first time it launches, it still creates the 
profile in the Windows user Profile(wrong location).
The second launch however, it uses h:\Firefox as expected.

When deleting the keys from HKCU\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Launcher(or App-V 
equivalent), it again doesn't use h:\Firefox for the first time launch.
As we have no roaming profiles, this essentially means that it's still unusable.

My conclusion is that with "MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES" Firefox still is eager to 
detect where firefox is installed and does not really honour profiles.ini .

If anybody has more insight, it would be very welcome.

--Mark


Van: Enterprise <[email protected]> Namens Joel Baltazor
Verzonden: maandag 12 augustus 2019 15:09
Aan: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
Onderwerp: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] disable "Profile per Install"

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]>


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