[Mozilla Enterprise] Enabling Extension via GPO

[Mike Kaply]

OK, that makes much more sense. Because it's a third party install, it's
disabled by default.

The easiest way to work around this would be to remove the registry entry
and just let the policy install it and it won't be disabled.

I'll see about making a policy that force enabled add-ons based on their ID.

I've had requests to change the addon scopes as well, but I'm not sure how
feasible that is right now.

Mike

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:12 PM Gura, Robert L. <rlgura at jonesday.com> wrote:

> Yes, the install for Research Monitor installs the plugin for IE and
> Firefox, but Firefox extension is disabled.
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> Without policy, this key is present and plugin is disabled:
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> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions
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> rmff at priorysolutions.com = C:\Program Files
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> (x86)\ResearchMonitor\rmff\rmff at priorysolutions.com.xpi
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> ______________________
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> Rob Gura
> TSS Infrastructure (Desktop) Engineer
> *JONES DAY® - One Firm Worldwide* <http://www.jonesday.com/>℠
> ______________________
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> *From:* Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2019 1:58 PM
> *To:* Gura, Robert L. <rlgura at jonesday.com>
> *Cc:* enterprise at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Enabling Extension via GPO
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> I'm wondering if ResearchMonitor is installing itself as a 3rd party
> extension so it actually isn't using the policy.
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> If you remove the policy, does it still install disabled?
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> Can you check the Windows registry to see if there is an install setup?
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> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Distribution_options/Add-ons_in_the_enterprise#Installation_using_the_Windows_registry
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> Mike Kaply
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> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:09 AM Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com> wrote:
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> That's really odd. I found one case where it didn't get enabled (if it was
> already installed disabled), but I could recreate in other cases.
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> I'm going to add some code to make sure it is explicitly enabled.
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> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530712
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> We can take the discussion there.
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> Mike Kaply
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> Mike
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> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:43 AM Gura, Robert L. <rlgura at jonesday.com>
> wrote:
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> Yes. I’ve tried on clean installs of Firefox, before, after Firefox
> installed, new profiles, existing profiles…
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>
> ______________________
>
> Rob Gura
> TSS Infrastructure (Desktop) Engineer
> *JONES DAY® - One Firm Worldwide* <http://www.jonesday.com/>℠
> ______________________
>
>
>
> *From:* Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:36 AM
> *To:* Gura, Robert L. <rlgura at jonesday.com>
> *Cc:* enterprise at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Enabling Extension via GPO
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> Is this the first time this extension has been installed on this machine?
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> Mike
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> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:35 AM Gura, Robert L. <rlgura at jonesday.com>
> wrote:
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> I’ve tried setting the following policies on machine and user side:
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> Administrative Templates > Mozilla > Firefox > Extensions
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>                 Extensions to Install = C:\Program Files
> (x86)\ResearchMonitor\rmff\rmff at priorysolutions.com.xpi
>
>                 Prevent extensions from being disabled or removed =
> rmff at priorysolutions.com
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>
> This installs the Extension, but does not enable it.
>
> IF the user enables the extension manually, they cannot disable it, but
> how do I get the extension to be enabled automatically??
>
> It seems like there’s a policy setting missing…
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> I’m on Firefox 60.5.1ESR (32-bit) with GPO templates v1.4
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