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upgrade to 72 wiped settings, bookmarks, everything else I'd set from 68--why?

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Updating Ffox used to be simple; new version (I suppose) picked up old profile. Now every upgrade has to have a new profile created--as far as I can tell, created by hand, piece by piece. Reinstalling older version also used to be simple--it just took me an hour. Why has upgrading has been made so difficult?

Updating Ffox used to be simple; new version (I suppose) picked up old profile. Now every upgrade has to have a new profile created--as far as I can tell, created by hand, piece by piece. Reinstalling older version also used to be simple--it just took me an hour. Why has upgrading has been made so difficult?

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Firefox 67 and later can use a dedicated profile for each of the Firefox update channels and will lock the profile, so it can only be used by Firefox in a specific installation folder. This data is maintained in profiles.ini and a backup is stored in installs.ini in the profile folder in case an older Firefox version would remove this data.

For Release versions this profile would be a xxxxxxxx.default-release profile, profiles used in older Firefox versions usually used a xxxxxxxx.default profile (a refresh adds a time stamp). Firefox ESR will prefer a xxxxxxxx.default-esr profile. 

Browser Console: AppConstants.MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL
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Thank you for your reply. I am not a developer nor an EE; I have used Firefox since it was part of Netscape, though. I did not in the least understand what you said. Again, thanks for trying.