Firefox has two default profiles: "default-release" and "default", which one should I choose?
And most importantly: why tech people can't avoid making things confusing?
Guess what, "default" is not my default profile. That would be "default-release".
Can I delete "default"? What's the reason for the double profile?
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Found answer here:
Summary of that page
Firefox can't share profiles between separate installs since v67.
The two profiles, .default and .default-release, are used by installs from different update channels - like release, beta, nightly, developer-edition etc. So for a non-tech user, .default-release is the "normal" default, since it is dedicated to the "normal" Release channel.
Older version of Firefox used .default in place of .default-release, so if you have both it's probably because you have first installed Firefox before v67. The old .default profile was converted and copied to .default-release when you updated to Firefox 67.
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