[Mozilla Enterprise] Policy for Homepage conflict with sessionrestore settings?

[Felipe Gomes]

The first implementation of the Homepage policy also forced the setting of
browser.startup.page to 1, because some users were getting confused if it
didn't force the homepage to open.  This was intentional at that time, but
we realized that it was a mistake, so we fixed that with bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469951, which means that this
fix will be released with Firefox 64.

(In the meantime, for Firefox 63, as long as you don't use the "Locked"
setting of the Homepage policy, and don't make any more changes to it, your
choice of browser.startup.page=3 will remain)

Apologies for the confusion it might have caused. As for your lost session,
there are backups! In your profile directory, look for a
sessionstore-backups folder, and follow the instructions here to recover:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1221836

Hope that helps!

Felipe

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 6:50 PM Stephen Dowdy <sdowdy at ucar.edu> wrote:

> So, i finally got around to creating a policies.json for ff 63.0
>
> However, while i had the "restore my pages" sessionrestore stuff
> configured in my prefs, the policies bit:
>
>     "Homepage": {
>       "Additional": [
>         "http://www.ZZZZZZZZZZZ",
>         "http://www.YYYYYYYYYYY"
>       ],
>       "URL": "http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
>     },
>
> seems to have knocked all my sessionrestore tabs out completely and only
> left me with the Policy Home pages :-(
> (at least the specified homepages were setup as tabs, so that part worked)
>
> I still also have autoconfig entries (in mozilla.cfg) :
>
>   defaultPref("startup.homepage_welcome_url",
> "data:text/plain,startup.homepage_welcome_url=
> http://www.YYYYYYYYYYYYY/|http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXX/|http://www.ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
> ");
>   defaultPref("browser.startup.homepage",
> "data:text/plain,browser.startup.homepage=
> http://www.YYYYYYYYYYYYY/|http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXX/|http://www.ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
> ");
> (I presume you're going to deprecate those at some point?)
>
> along with us defaulting users to:
>
>   defaultPref("browser.sessionstore.enabled", true);
>   defaultPref("browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash", true);
>   // 0=<blank>, 1=HomePage, 2=<lastvisited> , 3=SessionRestore
>   defaultPref("browser.startup.page", 3);
>
> My profile still had sessionrestore set in it for years, but POOF! All
> gone.
> (Side Note:  about:about doesn't even have an about:sessionrestore item
> displayed !?  I note my running 62.0.3 instance ALSO doesn't display that.
> Is Mozilla trying to deprecate that functionality as well?  I really
> dislike the "Hide Things From The Users" mentality)
>
> I went in to Edit->Preferences (Linux), and  re-checked:
>
>     General
>     Startup
>     [X] Restore previous session
>
> opened a few more tabs, then restarted, and it seems to now be sticking
> again, but i'm not thrilled to have lost hundreds of active tabs (yeah, i'm
> one of those people).
>
> So..... How do i keep from blowing away my user's (and more importantly MY
> ;}) SessionRestore settings if i use Homepage policy settings?
>
> thanks,
> --stephen
>
> --
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