[Mozilla Enterprise] Set default homepage for new users and disable Privacy Notice

[Mike Kaply]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:26 PM, James Andrewartha <
jandrewartha at ccgs.wa.edu.au> wrote:

> On 19/06/18 21:20, Mike Kaply wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Jonathan Pentecost
> > <jonathanpen at pcom.edu <mailto:jonathanpen at pcom.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Mike,
> >       Thanks for the quick reply.
> >
> >       We don't want to use Group Policy because, as far as I am aware,
> >     users won't be able to make a change to their homepage if we set a
> >     policy using Group Policy.  We want to set a default homepage to our
> >     website but want to allow them to change it to a site of their
> choosing.
> >
> >
> > You can choose in the policy whether or not to lock the homepage. If you
> > don't lock it, it works the same as the defaultPref in Autoconfig.
> Something I ran into is that if you do lock it, users then can't choose
> what happens when Firefox starts (home page/blank page/windows and tabs
> from last time) - it's forced into home page and you then have to select
> "Restore previous session" from the menu. Which was a brown pants moment
> (also about:sessionrestore was blank), I even downgraded to FF52 to make
> sure my session was still there, then upgraded and thought to look for a
> menu item.
>


Ah, interesting. So we probably shouldn't lock that setting and make it a
separate policy.

Mike


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