Make Nightly use a different profile directory?
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Anton Kovalyov
Jul 17, 2013, 1:38:25 PM7/17/13
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Hi,
The Firefox Developer Tools team (and I'm sure many other teams working on Desktop Firefox) would really love if Nightly adoption rate was increased. One way to achieve that is to follow what Chrome did with Canary and allow running Nightly simultaneously with other instances of Firefox without manually creating and choosing profiles. AFAIK, right now all channels use the same Application Support/Firefox directory (on my Mac at least) so my proposal is to change that to FirefoxNightly.
The main benefit, as I see it, is allowing web devs to use Nightly alongside their normal Firefox without too much trouble (it is a pain to run Firefox with -p on a Mac without additional tools).
Thoughts?
Anton
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The Firefox Developer Tools team (and I'm sure many other teams working on Desktop Firefox) would really love if Nightly adoption rate was increased. One way to achieve that is to follow what Chrome did with Canary and allow running Nightly simultaneously with other instances of Firefox without manually creating and choosing profiles. AFAIK, right now all channels use the same Application Support/Firefox directory (on my Mac at least) so my proposal is to change that to FirefoxNightly.
The main benefit, as I see it, is allowing web devs to use Nightly alongside their normal Firefox without too much trouble (it is a pain to run Firefox with -p on a Mac without additional tools).
Thoughts?
Anton
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Jared Wein
Jul 17, 2013, 2:05:24 PM7/17/13
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anton Kovalyov" <an...@mozilla.com>
> To: "Firefox Dev" <firef...@mozilla.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:38:25 PM
> Subject: Make Nightly use a different profile directory?
>
> Hi,
>
> The Firefox Developer Tools team (and I'm sure many other teams working on
> Desktop Firefox) would really love if Nightly adoption rate was increased.
> One way to achieve that is to follow what Chrome did with Canary and allow
> running Nightly simultaneously with other instances of Firefox without
> manually creating and choosing profiles. AFAIK, right now all channels use
> the same Application Support/Firefox directory (on my Mac at least) so my
> proposal is to change that to FirefoxNightly.
>
> The main benefit, as I see it, is allowing web devs to use Nightly alongside
> their normal Firefox without too much trouble (it is a pain to run Firefox
> with -p on a Mac without additional tools).
>
> Thoughts?
I agree. There are many users who don't think multiple versions of Firefox can be run simultaneously. I would even say that Firefox Aurora should be included in this separate profile business as well, as most of my webdev friends use Firefox Aurora to test out new features but dislike having to close Firefox first.
> From: "Anton Kovalyov" <an...@mozilla.com>
> To: "Firefox Dev" <firef...@mozilla.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:38:25 PM
> Subject: Make Nightly use a different profile directory?
>
> Hi,
>
> The Firefox Developer Tools team (and I'm sure many other teams working on
> Desktop Firefox) would really love if Nightly adoption rate was increased.
> One way to achieve that is to follow what Chrome did with Canary and allow
> running Nightly simultaneously with other instances of Firefox without
> manually creating and choosing profiles. AFAIK, right now all channels use
> the same Application Support/Firefox directory (on my Mac at least) so my
> proposal is to change that to FirefoxNightly.
>
> The main benefit, as I see it, is allowing web devs to use Nightly alongside
> their normal Firefox without too much trouble (it is a pain to run Firefox
> with -p on a Mac without additional tools).
>
> Thoughts?
Thank you for bringing this up Anton.
Cheers,
Jared
David Rajchenbach-Teller
Jul 17, 2013, 2:08:00 PM7/17/13
to Jared Wein, Anton Kovalyov, Firefox Dev
Very good idea.
We could have a dialog during first launch offering to either share the
profile (in which case both versions cannot be executed simultaneously)
or launch with a different profile (in which case they can).
Cheers,
David
--
David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD
Performance Team, Mozilla
We could have a dialog during first launch offering to either share the
profile (in which case both versions cannot be executed simultaneously)
or launch with a different profile (in which case they can).
Cheers,
David
David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD
Performance Team, Mozilla
Matt Brubeck
Jul 17, 2013, 2:23:43 PM7/17/13
to Anton Kovalyov, Firefox Dev
I think this is a good idea. On Android we already use separate
profiles per channel (because Android apps do not share data by
default). It has definite benefits for testing in multiple versions,
and the disadvantages have not proven to be major obstacles in practice.
Firefox Sync makes managing multiple profiles less painful. Making Sync
setup easier (which we already need to do for a number of reasons)
should let users benefit from this more easily.
profiles per channel (because Android apps do not share data by
default). It has definite benefits for testing in multiple versions,
and the disadvantages have not proven to be major obstacles in practice.
Firefox Sync makes managing multiple profiles less painful. Making Sync
setup easier (which we already need to do for a number of reasons)
should let users benefit from this more easily.
Jared Wein
Jul 17, 2013, 2:39:11 PM7/17/13
to Matt Brubeck, Anton Kovalyov, Firefox Dev
Although I'm not sure how this could be implemented for current users. Maybe upon upgrade, users of Nightly and Aurora could be prompted (yikes!) to ask if they want to fork their Nightly/Aurora profile or continue to use the same one?
Just a thought,
Jared
Just a thought,
Jared
Anton Kovalyov
Jul 17, 2013, 2:57:35 PM7/17/13
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