[Mozilla Enterprise] Proxy Settings switch back to "Use System Proxy Settings" on restart

[Felipe Gomes]

Two questions:

- What is the change that the user made?   (i.e. to which value are they
switching to?)

- Are you also using a distribution.ini file?

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 5:12 AM, Peter Schlierf <peter.schlierf at bayer.com>
wrote:

> No it is not bold,  it is back to Standard and on 5 on next restart.
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> But from my understanding, if I set in the Policy
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> Don't allow proxy settings to be changed.
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> Disabled
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> It will not become a lockpreference and the user should be able to switch
> the setting.
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> Or will the Group Policy always overwrite every setting, although it is
> not makred as lockPrefernce?
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> Freundliche Grüße / Best regards,
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> *Peter Schlierf*
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> *From:* Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 18, 2018 10:43 PM
> *To:* Peter Schlierf <peter.schlierf at bayer.com>
> *Cc:* enterprise at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Proxy Settings switch back to "Use
> System Proxy Settings" on restart
>
>
>
> After the policy is set back to 5, is it bold (meaning it's a user set
> preference)?
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> The policy code only sets default preference and locked preferences, it
> does not set user preferences.
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> So it won't ever cause a preference to be bold in about:config. If it's
> bold, it means the user changed it.
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>
>
> Mike
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Peter Schlierf <peter.schlierf at bayer.com>
> wrote:
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> Hello Enterprise-Group,
>
>
>
> hope some of you can help me here, as I could till now not find the
> reason, why that happens.
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>
> We use now the Group Policy feature with FF 60.1 ESR and set the Proxy
> Settings to “Use System Proxy settings”:
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> [image: cid:image001.png at 01D41F45.344DB7A0]
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>
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> We explicitly Disabled the feature
>
> Don't allow proxy settings to be changed.
>
> Disabled
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>
>
> But we unfortunately got feedback from some  users where the users changed
> their settings, but on the next start of Firefox the setting is back to
> “Use system proxy settings”.
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>
>
> Interesting is after the change in the GUI for the proxy I can see the
> change in the about:config for this session:
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> [image: cid:image002.png at 01D41F45.344DB7A0]
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> But as said on next start the setting for network.proxy.type is set back
> to 5.
>
> The other changes stay as value for network.proxy.autoconfig_url is still
> available.
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>
>
> Anyone else observes this problem or has an idea what could trigger that?
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> Freundliche Grüße / Best regards,
>
>
>
> Peter Schlierf
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> Bayer Business Services GmbH
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