Apologies for continuing this in the wrong place, but I was unable to subscribe to the factory mailing lists and could therefore not respond to the discussion there. However, I thought it was worthwhile pointing out that Firefox profiles for version 55+ can be "refreshed" to work with Firefox 52 via about:support (though I have not tested this personally). Presumably this would also work for certain other "old" versions of Firefox. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1357428#c2