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

[Peter Schlierf]

The User Switch to Value 2 for Automatic Configuration By Proxy file and Enters the value for the pac file. 

No we do Not use a Distribution.ini, we use in Addition to the Group policy Mozilla.cfg file from autoconfig.cfg. 

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 20.07.2018 um 16:33 schrieb Felipe Gomes <fgomes at mozilla.com>:
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> Two questions:
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> - What is the change that the user made?   (i.e. to which value are they switching to?)
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> - Are you also using a distribution.ini file?
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>> 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
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>> 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,
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>> 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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>> <image001.png>
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>> We explicitly Disabled the feature
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>> Don't allow proxy settings to be changed.
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>> 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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>> But as said on next start the setting for network.proxy.type is set back to 5.
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>> 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,
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>> Peter Schlierf
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