[Mozilla Enterprise] "ExtensionSettings" in policies.json does not allow users to disable addons

[Mike Kaply]

That's odd. There's nothing explicit in the code that does that, and it
shouldn't be reinstalling the addon.

Sounds like a bug. I'll take a look.

Mike

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:31 AM Oliver Haessler <oliver at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> we are trying to roll out an extension to a few thousand users on Firefox
> 68.2 ESR (Linux). I would like to use the policies.json way and the
> option "ExtensionSettings".
>
> The extension gets installed, but a user is not able to disable it. Every
> time firefox is installed, the Addon is enabled again.
>
> $ cat /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/policies.json
> {
> "policies": {
>   "ExtensionSettings": {
>     "ADDONNAME":{
>     "installation_mode": "normal_installed",
>       "install_url": "URL to xpi"
>      }
>     }
>   }
> }
>
> The policy-template page at [0] states:
>
> "The extension is automatically installed but can be disabled by the user.
> This option is not valid for the default configuration and requires an
> install_url."
>
> Any idea why the Addon is always enabled again?
>
> Thanks
> Oliver
>
> [0] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#extensionupdate
>
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