[Mozilla Enterprise] Homepage changed with 60-68 change

[Mike Kaply]

You're right, we do have code for this. This was requested so that a one
time reset would be done before setting the default.

I'm removing it.

Mike

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 1:45 AM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
wrote:

> That happens only in upgrade from 60 to 68 (in my experience). If you
> change them after upgrade they stay as you set them. I think this is a
> bug in upgrade where that setting overrides user set homepage. Kind of
> "first use" case when it isn't that in reality. Could be related to that
> new profile for each install.
>
> Anyway it is a bug somewhere as it clearly does something it shouldn't.
>
> Timo Pietilä
>
> On 1.8.2019 17.19, Mike Kaply wrote:
> > That policy changes the default values for the homepage and the browser
> > startup pref.
> >
> > It doesn't change any homepages that have been set by the user. There
> > must be something else going on to reset user set homepages.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 9:39 PM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
> > <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 29.7.2019 19.59, Mike Kaply wrote:
> >      > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:21 AM Timo Pietilä
> >     <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
> >      > <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
> >     <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     Hello.
> >      >
> >      >     Couple of things I have noticed and have not been able to
> >     figure out
> >      >     how
> >      >     to fix are that when I upgrade from ff60esr to ff68esr it
> doesn't
> >      >     retain
> >      >     my homepages and it gives "what happened to my live
> >     bookmarks" page
> >      >     which I don't want.
> >      >
> >      >     How to keep my homepage(s) as they were in FF60esr? This is a
> >      >     showstopper for me as people have multiple pages defined as
> their
> >      >     homepages and they need to be retained while setting default
> >     page for
> >      >     first time users.
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > Can you provide more detail on this? are you setting a new
> >     homepage via
> >      > policy?
> >
> >     It's using policies.json. Relevant code is this:
> >
> >     "Homepage": {
> >             "StartPage": "homepage",
> >             "URL": "http://flamma.helsinki.fi"
> >           },
> >
> >     It seems that when you upgrade from 60esr to 68esr it keeps
> everything
> >     else, but not homepage(s). It sets that as your homepage. It does
> allow
> >     you to change that afterwards, but if you didn't save those elsewhere
> >     before they are gone. I personally have 32 pages set as home.
> >
> >     Timo Pietilä
> >
>
>
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