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Turn off new profile notification in firefox v67

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Diw
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When v67 is installed on windows 7/10 for an existing firefox user, a notification pops up on first launch indicating that 'This installation of Firefox has a new profile. It does not share bookmarks, passwords and user preferences with other installations of firefox..'. Is there a way to turn this notification off so that users do not get confused.

When v67 is installed on windows 7/10 for an existing firefox user, a notification pops up on first launch indicating that 'This installation of Firefox has a new profile. It does not share bookmarks, passwords and user preferences with other installations of firefox..'. Is there a way to turn this notification off so that users do not get confused.

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cor-el
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I'm not seeing a way to prevent this page from showing on a new install when no profiles are present yet and a new profile got created if I check the source code (this is done before browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone is checked). This is the newInstall page.

Diw
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Can this be an option in the next release where the notification can be turned off?

cor-el
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If this is about deploying Firefox in an organization then I can move the thread to Firefox for Enterprise to see whether Mike Kaply has suggestions.

This message is only displayed when there aren't any profiles present and also no profiles.ini.

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Yes, this is for deploying in the organization. I would appreciate it if you could move this over to the enterprise forum for Mike Kaply to comment for the request. Thank you.