[Mozilla Enterprise] Homepage changed with 60-68 change

[Timo Pietilä]

Thanks. Good to know that there was a bug and not something weird going 
on in our end.

Timo Pietilä

On 2.8.2019 19.41, Mike Kaply wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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>>
>      >      > <mailto: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
>      >
>