[Mozilla Enterprise] Default homepage for FFv68 using policies.josn

[Mike Kaply]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 8:07 AM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
wrote:

> That is the behavior I'm getting as well. It says "Firefox Home
> (default)" and shows that page which I set using policies.json.
>
> I think this is by design (it changes the default page to what you set
> it to be). If I want to change it I need to change that as custom
>
> I didn't think there were anything wrong with that.
>

I'm fixing the homepage problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568855


>
> My problem is that "new tab" says the same and actually gives you
> Firefox Home. With policies you can't set that to anything, for example
> blank page, you can only disable it with NewTabPage policy.
>
>
Yes, the policy only lets you turn it off or on. That is by design. If you
want to replace the new tab, you should use an extension.

The preferences should reflect the correct setting of the new tab page. Do
they not?

Mike



>
> About policies says:
>
> homepage        startpage       "homepage"
>                 URL              "what I set it to be"
>
> Timo Pietilä
>
> On 24.7.2019 20.04, Mike Kaply wrote:
> > Definitely not.
> >
> > Can you check about:policies and see what it says?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 11:58 AM JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov
> > <mailto:JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>> wrote:
> >
> >     I noticed that when setting my default homepage with the
> >     policies.json folder, when I go to Tools>Options>Home my homepage is
> >     not listed, it has “Firefox home (Default) listed, even though when
> >     I bring up Firefox the homepage I set is coming up. Is this my
> >     design?____
> >
> >     __ __
> >
> >     Thanks,____
> >
> >     Justin Anderson____
> >
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