[Mozilla Enterprise] FF v68.1 ESR Homepage issue

Thu Sep 12 10:35:07 UTC 2019

We don’t have the homepage set via CCK2, because of the multiple Firefox Profiles. I’m not sure what is going on here. But like I said, this is how we’ve set default Homepages for different Firefox profiles for over 6 years and we were able to change our Homepages if we choose to up until Firefox v68.

From: Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 3:35 PM
To: JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] FF v68.1 ESR Homepage issue

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 9:56 AM JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov<mailto:JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>> wrote:
I have this in user.js.

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "a specific url");

If I comment that preference setting out, I can change my default homepage to lets say… “yahoo.com<http://yahoo.com>” and it sticks after closing Firefox and bringing it back up. But, if I don’t comment it out and make a change to my homepage, the url that I set in “browser.startup.homepage”…comes up. Prior to v68, this wasn’t the case for us.

I'm at a loss. I just tried the exact same thing on Firefox 60 and it changes my homepage. user.js sets the user pref, so it overrides whatever the user sets. I don't understand why you're seeing otherwise.

We alsi use CCK2, because GPO will just not work for us due to all the customization we do. Do you think that could be an issue? Like I said we have over 30 different Firefox profiles and most of them have a set Default homepage controlled via the user.js file.

What is missing from the GPO that we could add that could help?

I'm wondering if some CCK2 setting is affecting this. Are you setting any homepage via CCK2?

Mike

Thanks,
Justin

From: Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com<mailto:mkaply at mozilla.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 5:09 PM
To: JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov<mailto:JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>>
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] FF v68.1 ESR Homepage issue

Taking this off list.

I just ran a quick check on Firefox 60 and the homepage I set in preferences was overridden by the one in user.js at startup.

What exactly do you have in your user.js? I have:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "https://mike.kaply.com");

Mike

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 8:02 AM JUSTIAA2 <JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov<mailto:JUSTIAA2 at ucia.gov>> wrote:

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<mailto:mkaply at mozilla.com>>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 2:29 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

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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