Note that there are add-ons such as "Profile Switcher" which allow you
to display the profile manager dialog without touching the
command-line. I don't know if that qualifies as "user facing" or not.
It's certainly an advanced user feature that most people will never
see.

kats

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe he means that the current profile manager isn't really
> user-facing, since it needs to be enabled on the command line (at least
> once): http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
>
> The current profile manager certainly doesn't meet our UX standards, so we
> shouldn't try to make the replacement meet them either. That being said, we
> should make sure it's no _less_ usable than the old one.
>
> bholley
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Stephen Horlander <shorlan...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, December 18, 2015 at 4:52:00 PM UTC-5, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
>> > As it stands, this is not intended to be product code and so I
>> > specifically advised Andrea not to spend UX/product time on this. It is
>> > still a strict replacement for the old profile manager code which was
>> > very difficult to maintain.
>> >
>> > It's unlikely that we'd use this code as a base for any production
>> > version of multiple-user Firefox.
>> >
>> > --BDS
>>
>> I am not sure I understand. Does "not intended to be product code" mean
>> that this won't be riding the trains and shipping in a general release of
>> Firefox?
>>
>> - Stephen
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