• Born: Reported profile problems with the newly updated Firefox

    Posted on December 4, 2019 at 06:35 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Günter Born reports that the new versions of Firefox, released yesterday — version 71 for most people and ESR (Extended Service Release) 68.3.0 for those on the extended track — have prompted problem reports. It isn’t clear if these are one-off, or if they’re indicative of a larger problem.

    • Upgrading to ESR 68.3 damages the default profile (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default).
    • Upgrading to ESR 68.3 or Firefox 71 removes the policies.json file (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution\policies.json).

    In addition, Born has a report that the picture-in-picture function for video playback keeps gobbling up memory.

    Can you confirm any of those reports?

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