[Mozilla Enterprise] FF v68.1 ESR Homepage issue

[JUSTIAA2]

A user had the ability to set their own Homepage if they choose to up until FF v68. So, something has changed within Firefox that doesn’t allow this. We’ve always used the user.js to set default homepages with the ability to change your homepage if you choose to…at least for the 6 years I’ve been creating Firefox packages. Not being able to change the homepage on profiles that have set Default homepages is keeping us from upgrading to FF v68. Is there an example through autoconfig that you can provide that we would be able to do this again?

Justin

From: Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 2:29 PM
To: JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>
Cc: enterprise at mozilla.org
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] FF v68.1 ESR Homepage issue

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 12:10 PM JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov<mailto:JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>> wrote:
I have multiple profiles all with different Homepages, each using the user.js file to set the default page, but want the ability for users to change their Homepage if they want. I’m not sure autoconfig will help? What other way can I set different settings for multiple Firefox profiles (over 30), without using a user.js file?

user.js sets user preferences (not default preferences). So it will always override the user choice (that's what it's meant to do).

Default preferences aren't set on a per profile basis.

So there's no easy way to have a default homepage per profile that the user can then change and not have it be overwritten.

If the 30 profiles were always the same 30 profiles, you might be able to do something with autoconfig that did per profile homepages, but that's all I can think of.

Mike



From: Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com<mailto:mkaply at mozilla.com>>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 12:59 PM
To: JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov<mailto:JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>>
Cc: enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] FF v68.1 ESR Homepage issue

user.js works by setting the user preference, so it will always override user choice.

You should use policy or autoconfig to set a default homepage. not user.js.

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 7:08 AM JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov<mailto:JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>> wrote:
Also, we use multiple firefox profiles, each with different preference settings. We use a user.js to set the homepages, proxy settings…etc. I noticed that if I comment the preference setting that sets the homepage, I can set my default homepage, close out of Firefox, bring it up and it stays. Is there a way to change the homepage and still use the user.js file to set a default homepage on initial startup?

From: Enterprise <enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org>> On Behalf Of JUSTIAA2
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 7:14 AM
To: enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>
Subject: [Mozilla Enterprise] FF v68.1 ESR Homepage issue

Good Morning,

I just installed FF v68.1. I’ve set my homepage to www.yahoo.com<http://www.yahoo.com>, but when I close out of Firefox and restart it. The homepage goes back to an enterprise default Homepage that I’ve set up. What could cause this? Any help would be greatly appreciated


Thanks,
Justin Anderson
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