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

[Thane K. Sherrington]

As an update to this, I just installed Firefox on a fresh install of 
Windows 10.

My process was:

Install Firefox with this command line:

Firefox Setup 69.0.exe  -ms

then I copy policies.json to %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution

{
   "policies": {
     "DisableBuiltinPDFViewer": true,
     "DisplayBookmarksToolbar": true,
     "DisplayMenuBar": true,
     "FlashPlugin": {
       "Default": true
     },
     "NetworkPrediction": true,
     "Proxy": {
       "AutoLogin": true,
       "Mode": "none",
       "SOCKSVersion": 4,
       "UseHTTPProxyForAllProtocols": true,
       "UseProxyForDNS": false
     },
     "SearchEngines": {
       "Default": "Google",
       "PreventInstalls": true
     }
   }
}

Then I start Firefox.  Sometimes the policies take hold, sometimes they 
don't.

In this case, the proxy setting held, but the tool bars settings and 
disabling the internal PDF viewer didn't.

So clearly I'm doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thane K. Sherrington

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On 04/09/2019 9:17 p.m., Thane K. Sherrington wrote:
> On 22/07/2019 7:04 p.m., Mike Kaply wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:21 AM Thane K. Sherrington 
>> <thane at computerconnectionltd.com 
>> <mailto:thane at computerconnectionltd.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Things that work randomly:
>>
>>         "DisplayBookmarksToolbar": true,
>>         "DisplayMenuBar": true
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>         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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What version of Firefox? Being able to set it to false was something 
>> that wasn't working until Firefox 67/ESR 60.7
>>
>> 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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