[Mozilla Enterprise] local domains seen as search engine words?

Luca Manganelli luca.manganelli at comune.trento.it
Mon Oct 26 13:20:13 UTC 2020


At last! The group policy was not working because there was a setting in
the "Preferences (Deprecated)". You MUST remove all settings in this
deprecated section, otherwise Firefox will ignore in the new "Preferences"
section.


Il giorno ven 23 ott 2020 alle ore 09:20 Luca Manganelli <
luca.manganelli at comune.trento.it> ha scritto:

> Yes, I found it:
>
> https://nc.comune.trento.it/s/K3JMkyEg2BjNaNK
>
> but, when i go in Firefox, i could not find the new preference set in
> "about:config"
>
> p.s. using Firefox 78.4.0, latest ESR.
>
>
> Il giorno gio 22 ott 2020 alle ore 17:58 Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
> ha scritto:
>
>> Are you setting any Preferences via the old policy?
>>
>> What do you see when you look at:
>>
>> Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox
>>
>> In regedit?
>>
>> I'm seeing weirdness where sometimes policies don't take in GPEDIT and I
>> have to edit other policies to make them take.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:09 AM Luca Manganelli <
>> luca.manganelli at comune.trento.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Mike,
>>>
>>> I'm testing the preference.
>>> First, the locked value should be quoted, right? As the below:
>>>
>>> {
>>> "browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words": {
>>> "Value": true,
>>> "Status": "locked"
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> I have done this:
>>> 1) entered in the "preferences"  window in the Group Policy editor;
>>> 2) clicked on "Enabled" check
>>> 3) pasted the above text
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, neither in the Computer or User configuration, this
>>> preference is applied to my Firefox 78.4.0 ESR.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Il giorno mer 21 ott 2020 alle ore 16:46 Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
>>> ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> I'm only deprecating the method of setting preferences that way (and it
>>>> will still work for the foreseeable future)
>>>>
>>>> With the new Preferences method, you set that preference like this:
>>>>
>>>> {
>>>>   "browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words": {
>>>>     "Value": false,
>>>>     "Status": locked
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:40 AM Luca Manganelli <
>>>> luca.manganelli at comune.trento.it> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> If I write in URL address:
>>>>>
>>>>> servername/service
>>>>>
>>>>> Firefox uses it as google search, not to go to that site directly.
>>>>>
>>>>> From the github of policy templates I have seen this in the DEPRECATED
>>>>> section. But I am unsure if I can use this or another policy setting?
>>>>>
>>>>> browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words boolean     Firefox 68,
>>>>> Firefox ESR 68 false
>>>>>     If true, single words are sent to DNS, not directly to search.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>
>>
>
> --
> Luca Manganelli
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> Servizio Innovazione e Sistemi digitali
> Via Ezio Maccani 148
> 38121 Trento (TN)
>


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Luca Manganelli
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