[Mozilla Enterprise] Distribution folder policies.json doesn't seem to work correctly

[Thane K. Sherrington]

On 22/07/2019 7:04 p.m., Mike Kaply wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:21 AM Thane K. Sherrington 
> <thane at computerconnectionltd.com 
> <mailto:thane at computerconnectionltd.com>> wrote:
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>     Things that work randomly:
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>         "DisplayBookmarksToolbar": true,
>         "DisplayMenuBar": true
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>         These two work some of the time (I'd say about 70%).  The rest
>     of the time, I get none or one of the toolbars.
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>         I'm not sure if the other settings hold 100% of the time,
>     because I can't check every install, but the toolbars are obvious.
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> These two policies only have an effect the first time they are set and 
> a user can override them. That's probably why you are getting mixed 
> results/

So is there anyway to do this?

Situation: User already has older version of FF installed.  I want to 
update to latest and apply new settings (turn on Menu Bar and Bookmarks 
Toolbar, Turn off proxy).

If I uninstall the old version of FF, and remove the 
%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox folder, then reinstall, copy the 
policies.json to %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution folder will 
these new settings take effect, or (because there is already a profile 
created) are they ignored (it appears they are ignored, but I'm not sure 
if that's expected or not).

>     BTW, the line     "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": false  has the
>     opposite affect.  If I include this line, then Firefox never asks
>     if it should be the default, and if I don't include it, it asks
>     about 80% of the time.
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> What version of Firefox? Being able to set it to false was something 
> that wasn't working until Firefox 67/ESR 60.7
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> Note that even if you say false, we won't necessarily ask at every 
> startup.

I'm using FF 68/69.  How can I force FF to check 100% of the time?  
Checking some of the time isn't the same as "Always check if FF is your 
default browser" which makes this setting inaccurate and disingenuous.


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