On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Richard Newman <rnew...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> How we populate the new profile we create for Nightly and Beta channels is
>> an open question. We could simply clone the existing Release profile or use
>> Firefox Refresh to copy across the basic data. In either case we can notify
>> the user to let them know what has happened.
>>
>
> Use some caution with this: it's important that the resulting profile
> doesn't share Sync or active FxA state — e.g., clientID, deviceID — with
> the source profile. The Sync team can advise if this course of action is
> chosen.
>
> In general it's not safe to copy profiles in the presence of Sync.
>

What happens when users do that? Because they do.
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