[Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen in ESR 78

Tue Jul 7 18:47:50 UTC 2020

So this apparently did change in 76 and I didn't catch it. I'll get an
update to the policies in the next update.

Mike

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:52 AM Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com> wrote:

> That welcome should be turned off if you turn off FirefoxAccounts via
> policy
>
>
> https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/7ec7ee4a9bde171ba195ab46ed6077e4baaef34d/browser/components/enterprisepolicies/Policies.jsm#540
>
> or if you change the first run page:
>
>
> https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/7ec7ee4a9bde171ba195ab46ed6077e4baaef34d/browser/components/enterprisepolicies/Policies.jsm#1297
>
> I'll verify this didn't break somehow in 78.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:20 AM Harkins, Steve via Enterprise <
> enterprise at mozilla.org> wrote:
>
>>                Maxime,
>>
>>
>>
>> What I mean is, something that’s not a GPO; something internal in
>> Firefox, like in a configuration file.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Maxime Accadia <maxime.accadia at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 07, 2020 8:45 AM
>> *To:* Harkins, Steve <sharkins at ti.com>
>> *Cc:* Ryan V. Kasper <Ryan.V.Kasper at leidos.com>; Philipp Madersbacher <
>> philipp.madersbacher at gmail.com>; enterprise <enterprise at mozilla.org>
>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: How can we get rid of Welcome screen in ESR 78
>>
>>
>>
>> > Is that from the internal configuration of Firefox?
>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure to understand your question. UserMessaging and
>> OverrideFirstRunPage are defined policies for firefox ; you can set them by
>> GPO. See https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates.
>>
>>
>>
>> Maxime
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *De: *"Steve Harkins" <sharkins at ti.com>
>> *À: *"MAXIME ACCADIA" <maxime.accadia at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>, "Ryan V.
>> Kasper" <Ryan.V.Kasper at leidos.com>
>> *Cc: *"Philipp Madersbacher" <philipp.madersbacher at gmail.com>,
>> "enterprise" <enterprise at mozilla.org>
>> *Envoyé: *Mardi 7 Juillet 2020 15:40:03
>> *Objet: *RE: How can we get rid of Welcome screen in ESR 78
>>
>>
>>
>>                Maxime,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.  Is that from the internal configuration of Firefox?  We are
>> preparing to use GPOs for Firefox, but we’re not quite there yet.  We
>> already have GPOs for IE and Edge, and plan to add some for Firefox,
>> Chrome, and Chromium Edge.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Maxime Accadia <maxime.accadia at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 07, 2020 4:21 AM
>> *To:* Kasper, Ryan V. <Ryan.V.Kasper at leidos.com>
>> *Cc:* Philipp Madersbacher <philipp.madersbacher at gmail.com>; Harkins,
>> Steve <sharkins at ti.com>; enterprise <enterprise at mozilla.org>
>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of
>> Welcome screen in ESR 78
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried both policies (UserMessaging and OverrideFirstRunPage). The first
>> run page is indeed overidden but the "Welcome to Firefox" of Firefox 78
>> also appears on new tabs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Maxime
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *De: *"enterprise" <enterprise at mozilla.org>
>> *À: *"Philipp Madersbacher" <philipp.madersbacher at gmail.com>, "Harkins,
>> Steve" <sharkins at ti.com>
>> *Cc: *"enterprise" <enterprise at mozilla.org>
>> *Envoyé: *Lundi 6 Juillet 2020 18:37:05
>> *Objet: *Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen
>> in ESR 78
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree – also
>> https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#usermessaging
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve – you can use the admx GPO templates available here
>> https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates or create a policies.json
>> file under %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution (you will need to
>> create the distribution folder, too)…
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Ryan V. Kasper
>>
>> Leidos - Software Packaging
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Enterprise <enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org> *On Behalf Of *Philipp
>> Madersbacher
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 6, 2020 9:33 AM
>> *To:* Harkins, Steve <sharkins at ti.com>
>> *Cc:* enterprise at mozilla.org
>> *Subject:* EXTERNAL: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of
>> Welcome screen in ESR 78
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi, I assume this can be controlled through the following
>> preference/policy:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#overridefirstrunpage
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> philipp
>>
>>
>>
>> Am Mo., 6. Juli 2020 um 15:34 Uhr schrieb Harkins, Steve via Enterprise <
>> enterprise at mozilla.org>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Our Electronic Software Distribution team is packaging ESR 78.01, and in
>> testing noticed this Welcome screen.  How can we keep this from appearing
>> on users’ computers?  Is it in the config somewhere?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve Harkins
>>
>> Texas Instruments, Inc
>>
>> IT Operations & Infrastructure
>>
>> Client Engineering
>>
>> 214-567-8232
>>
>> sharkins at ti.com
>>
>>
>>
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