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Remove all traces of previous FF installations from your machine.
Install FF 60.9 ESR 32bit into C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\. Run it.
Make some changes to the profile, so you'd recognise it later, in fact not necessary.

Install FF 68.1 ESR 64bit into C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox. Run it.
You're greeted with
"This installation of Firefox has a new profile."

That's caused by the new "profile per install" feature, but I don't really think this is desired. All the user has does is to install a fresh version and they'd expect their profile to be used.

Anyway, we can s/Firefox/Thunderbird/ and move the bug to the Thunderbird queue.
Remove all traces of previous FF installations from your machine.
Install FF 60.9 ESR 32bit into C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\. Run it.
Make some changes to the profile, so you'd recognise it later, in fact not necessary.

Install FF 68.1 ESR 64bit into C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox. Run it.
You're greeted with
"This installation of Firefox has a new profile."

That's caused by the new "profile per install" feature, but I don't really think this is desired. All the user has done is to install a fresh version and they'd expect their profile to be used.

Anyway, we can s/Firefox/Thunderbird/ and move the bug to the Thunderbird queue.

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