[Mozilla Enterprise] Trying to hide Pocket entries an "New Page" Tab (68.0.2 ESR)

Mike Kaply mkaply at mozilla.com
Fri Sep 6 21:27:30 UTC 2019


Just looks like a bug. Can you report at :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Enterprise+Policies

I'm investigating now.

Mike

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 6:23 AM Gruhm, Sebastian <
Sebastian.Gruhm at fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> While trying to hide the Pocket entries on the “New Page” Tab I am
> encountering some unexpected behavior.
>
> 1.       Silent installation of firefox with autoconfig.cfg for some
> settings and policies.json to disable autoupdate and Pocket Recommendations
> on “New Tab” Page
>
> 2.       Reboot
>
> 3.       Logon as normal user (1st login on this machine, no roaming
> profile)
>
> 4.       1st Firefox start: On about:preferences#home Pocket
> Recommendations are visible an ticked/active. When a new Tab is opened,
> recommendations are there.
>
> 5.       2nd Firefox start: Pocket Recommendations are visible but not
> ticked/deactivated. When a new Tab is opened, recommendations are gone.
>
>
>
> The same happens when I use
> defaultPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories",
> false); in autoconfig.cfg.
>
>
>
> Expected behavior would be step 5 on first startup.
>
>
>
> Why is this like this? For me, it is no game-stopper but it would be nice
> to know that all my settings work on the first run.
>
>
>
>
>
> Content of policies.json:
>
>
>
> *{*
>
> *                "policies": {*
>
> *                               "DisableAppUpdate": true,*
>
> *                               "FirefoxHome": {*
>
> *                                               "Search": true,*
>
> *                                               "TopSites": true,*
>
> *                                               "Highlights": true,*
>
> *                                               "Pocket": false,*
>
> *                                               "Snippets": true,*
>
> *                                               "Locked": false*
>
> *                               }*
>
> *                }*
>
> *}*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichem Gruß
>
>
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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