@MsDropbear42 Over the past 24ish hrs, with a little sleep, i grasped the nettle & created 5 new Profiles in the new #ProfileManager, to match my old ones in the old / becoming superseded #AboutProfiles about:profiles paradigm. Given the
Devs' ongoing silence about any tool to efficiently migrate from the old to the new, i had to do this entirely manually, & with copious trial & error. Eventually i fathomed a workable albeit extremely tedious procedure to do it. In my older toot i'd said
i then attempted to copy each of the old profiles' folders & files into the respective new ones. That was hopeless, as clearly it overwrote whatever parameters are buried somewhere in each respective new-paradigm profile folders that tells them they are of the new paradigm, thus buggering it all up
Unfortunately it seems to be the prefs.js file which ruins the conversion, so i learned to exclude that file from the myriad i copied between the old & new schemas. The rotten thing about having to exclude that file is doing so then necessitates hours of work having to manually recreate all the arcane settings per profile, including the applicable AddOns & their respective settings / user data.
The new paradigm barely uses the traditional files installs.ini & profiles.ini, so part of the delight of this manual procedure is to discover the match-up between my plain-english profile names, & the random character names assigned by the new Profile Manager in the new subdirectory Profile Groups, in order to ensure i'm copying files into the correct target new-profile directories...
R4YSqWk8.Profile 1 = Nightly_Native
oSnWoXoN.Profile 2 = Nightly_Sidebery
iPYqTOrf.Profile 3 = Nightly_Session-Wipe
G09d26gj.Profile 4 = Nightly_Streaming
3E44GKFE.Profile 5 = Nightly_Virgin
Still, after all the effort, i do grudgingly admit the fleshed-out P/M does look modestly aesthetic...
#FirefoxNightly #Profiles #ProfileManagement