1996240 - Add a method to migrate old style profiles to the new profiles system

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement)

Comment 1

[Alice Wyman]

See also https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/profile/changes.html#new-profiles-ui-profile-groups-and-shared-data and related discussion, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management/discuss/13159 Switch back to the original "about:profiles" manager ...and Refresh feature is disabled

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to Alice Wyman from comment #1)

See also https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/profile/changes.html#new-profiles-ui-profile-groups-and-shared-data and related discussion, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management/discuss/13159 Switch back to the original "about:profiles" manager ...and Refresh feature is disabled

I'm unsure how any of that is relevant. Those just seem to discuss other bugs that should be on file.

Comment 3

[Alice Wyman]

I wanted to add some context, since this bug did not provide a description of the issue and whether the planned migration will remove the legacy about:profiles system or not. Right now, the https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management SUMO KB article tells users that both profile systems co-exist and the related article discussion thread I posted links to https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-firefox-profiles-in-nightly/td-p/84223 (quote) This feature is separate from the about:profiles experience, and we currently have no plans to change how about:profiles works. You may continue to use about:profiles if that is better for your workflow.

See this post (quote) currently, a profile created via the legacy Profile manager does not show up in the Profiles menu, and vice versa. The good news is that migration from old-style profiles to modern ones is in development (here's the bug). ... which links to this bug report.

Another related discussion, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management/discuss/14015 (quote) We might also want to explain that these new profiles do not appear on the about:profiles page ... and that new profiles created using the original about:profiles manager don't appear in the new Profiles menu on the toolbar.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1996240: Add a method to migrate old style profiles to the new profiles system. r=#profiles-reviewers!

Adds a Migrate button to profiles in about:profiles that are elligible for migration. This is profiles
that are not currently in use and don't already have multiple profiles grouped with them.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/473fe8e0a2f3
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/2b5b9a62b410
Add a method to migrate old style profiles to the new profiles system. r=profiles-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,bolsson,jhirsch,desktop-theme-reviewers,hjones

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/2ed63cb909f4
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b82bae54f93b
Revert "Bug 1996240: Add a method to migrate old style profiles to the new profiles system. r=profiles-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,bolsson,jhirsch,desktop-theme-reviewers,hjones" for causing failures on profileMigrate.xhtml

Comment 7

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

Backed out for causing failures on profileMigrate.xhtml

Push with failures

Failure logs:

• https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer?job_id=536417670&repo=autoland&task=QSIEsSSaS9CZmShz-rVPuQ.0

Backout link

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/0ddf25410102
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/649b459cb4d5
Add a method to migrate old style profiles to the new profiles system. r=profiles-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,bolsson,jhirsch,desktop-theme-reviewers,hjones,tschuster

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/ebac7cf204cd
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/87cf5d8af354
Revert "Bug 1996240: Add a method to migrate old style profiles to the new profiles system. r=profiles-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,bolsson,jhirsch,desktop-theme-reviewers,hjones,tschuster" as requested by Mossop.

Comment 10

[rugk]

Also asked for this so I and likely many others really need that: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1554053?utm_campaign=bugzilla&utm_source=bugzilla&utm_medium=bugzilla