[Mozilla Enterprise] Policies (w/GPO) feedback and questions

[Mike Kaply]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:41 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had some time to modify our AD environment to start applying GPOs
> to Firefox.
>
> So far, everything seems to be working, as far as I can tell. I was able
> to disable pocket, turn off spying (I mean telemetry, due to policies
> outside our control we can't allow that in our environment) as well as
> install extensions and the like.
>
> I do have a few questions...
>
> 1. I've disabled pocket (as in: it's nowhere in the menus), but the
> newtab is still giving me pocket suggestions?
>

Disabling pocket is about disabling the extension integration. See the next
answer....


>
> 2. Is there a way to customize the newtab interface for new users? We
> have a lot of non-tech-savvy users and the new tab will be overwhelming
> for these users. Ideally, having the newtab set to a blank page would be
> ideal, enforced through GPO. This doesn't necessarily need to be a
> locked pref, if our power users want to show their history/etc that's
> not an issue, so just an initial setting would be great.
>

I plan to have this in the next release (September 5). It's been requested
by multiple folks.

It will mainly be just turning on and off the various new tab prefs.


>
> 3. Most importantly, I can't find a way to redirect the bookmarks. We
> map a user share and I've redirected IE to put their favorites/bookmarks
> there so that they are captured during the backup. From reading online
> you can manually set up a new profile location which would include the
> bookmarks and other bits in the profile, but it would be more ideal to
> map it to their home directory/drive via GPO. Assuming, of course, this
> doesn't lead to cache information being stored on our server.
>

Unfortunately this is a capability that Firefox doesn't support anymore.

I'm trying to figure out if there is some clever way to do it.

Mike


>
> Thanks for any insight,
>
> Dan
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