Since shipping the multiple profiles feature in Firefox last year, we’ve had some pretty detailed power user questions on Connect, which is a bit of an awkward place to get way into the details.
I’m going to start redirecting those conversations over here, as Discourse has better support for threaded discussions (and, mailing list support too!).
In the meantime, if you have questions about the multiple profiles feature, especially how it fits together with the legacy about:profiles / profiles.ini profile management system, please ask
Hi, thank you for starting this thread! Let me jump in with a couple of questions.
If I create profiles from many different profiles (and different types of profiles), is there a chance to break Firefox that way? I know there are safeguards for concurrent profile management, but is there a possibility that one of the profiles will pick up a wrong database / create a new one?
From the SUMO perspective, we get many questions from users who “lost” their data after being promoted by our messaging to create a new selectable profile and being switched to that fresh profile. Are we considering improving the messaging for existing legacy profiles users?
In addition to the above, sometimes something weird happens, which very much looks like a bug. Does it make sense to redirect such people to Bugzilla? I mean:
Is there a way to understand what happened in the cases of data corruption, for example?
Are there people willing to investigate such reports at all?
Also, just out of curiosity. I haven’t really dig into that, but from what I understand, the only difference between legacy and selectable profiles are colors/icons (which prevents us from using the legacy profile type, because there’s no place for those fields). Is that understanding wrong? You mentioned concurrency on Reddit, but didn’t we have that for legacy profiles already?
And thanks again for giving us the priority to ask questions! Hope you (won’t) regret this
I know there are safeguards for concurrent profile management, but is there a possibility that one of the profiles will pick up a wrong database / create a new one?