[Mozilla Enterprise] policies.json file deleting upon firefox upgrade

[Alex (US), Nicole L]

Thanks. The ini file seems to work.

From: Philipp Madersbacher [mailto:philipp.madersbacher at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 2:57 PM
To: Alex (US), Nicole L <nicole.l.alex at boeing.com>
Cc: fgomes at mozilla.com; Enterprise at mozilla.org; Hoang (US), Victor T <victor.t.hoang at boeing.com>
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] policies.json file deleting upon firefox upgrade

In Firefox 60 ESR it looks like the same result can be achieved as well though slightly different according to the documentation (with the help of an ini file):
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-esr60/source/browser/installer/windows/docs/FullConfig.rst

Best regards
philipp

Am Di., 30. Okt. 2018 um 22:45 Uhr schrieb Alex (US), Nicole L <nicole.l.alex at boeing.com<mailto:nicole.l.alex at boeing.com>>:
It looks like the /RemoveDistributionDir=false isn’t valid for 60 ESR according to https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/installer/windows/installer/FullConfig.html

Is there any plans to include it in 60 ESR?

Nikki Alex

From: Enterprise [mailto:enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org>] On Behalf Of Felipe Gomes
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 2:38 PM
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Cc: Mozilla.org <enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>>; Hoang (US), Victor T <victor.t.hoang at boeing.com<mailto:victor.t.hoang at boeing.com>>
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] policies.json file deleting upon firefox upgrade

We investigated this issue on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502188

The conclusion there was that these reports were probably using setup.exe to update Firefox. In short, if Firefox updates itself, it keeps the distribution dir.  If someone uses setup.exe to install a new version, that's called a "pave-over" install that deletes that dir.

However, this is just the default behavior, and setup.exe has a command-line flag for this: /RemoveDistributionDir=false

I'm waiting for Victor to confirm in the bug if that's what was happening.

Hope that helps!
Felipe

(Does someone want to post this information to the SUMO request mentioned by Philipp?)

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:24 PM Philipp Madersbacher <philipp.madersbacher at gmail.com<mailto:philipp.madersbacher at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi, there was this recent similar support request, so it may well be a general issue: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1237979
Would you mind getting a bug report on file for this through https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Enterprise%20Policies?

Thank you!

Am Do., 25. Okt. 2018 um 17:09 Uhr schrieb Hoang (US), Victor T <victor.t.hoang at boeing.com<mailto:victor.t.hoang at boeing.com>>:
Hello,

Has anyone else noticed or experienced an occurrence where updating Firefox deletes the policies.json file from the distributions directory (in the Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution\policies.json)?

I’ve recently been testing this out by manually adding the policies.json file into version 60.2 and updating to 60.3 but when I check in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution\policies.json, it disappears and I need to put it back in manually. On a side note, I’ve tested to see whether or not the same issue occurs upgrading from 52.8 to 60.2 and it seems to exist as well.

Is this behavior abnormal? If not then is there a way around this to have the policies.json stay on the browser?

Thanks,
Victor
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