[Mozilla Enterprise] Bug in 78.3.0 and Firefox 81 causing legacy preferences not to work on Windows only

Kahle, Markus markus.kahle at brueckmann-gmbh.de
Tue Oct 20 12:27:50 UTC 2020


Hi Mike, 

is this fixed in the newest Firefox 82 Release, already available via the firefox ftp server ? 
And do you got a timeframe when there will be a updated firefox policy for Firefox 82 ? 

Thanks in advance, 

Markus 

> Von: "Mike Kaply" <mkaply at mozilla.com>
> An: "enterprise" <enterprise at mozilla.org>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. September 2020 16:53:22
> Betreff: [Mozilla Enterprise] Bug in 78.3.0 and Firefox 81 causing legacy
> preferences not to work on Windows only

> So we've discovered a bug in 81/78.3.0 where the legacy preferences aren't
> applying anymore on Windows only when using GPO.

> This was a side effect of the new preferences policy that we didn't catch.

> We have a fix, but I don't have a timeline yet for release.

> The easiest fix is to switch over to the new policy which uses JSON to describe
> the preferences.

> If anyone needs help with that, please let me know and I'll make sure things
> work for you.

> I'm really sorry this made it through my testing.

> Mike

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