On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:31 AM Tom Ritter <t...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Awesome! > > > 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. > 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? _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
