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and Firefox preferences when we moved to ESR. This process also seems to be a little bit easier to quickly adjust a setting/preference without having to setup a test OU, edit a test GPO, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Enterprise <enterprise-bounces@mozilla.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Harkins, Steve via Enterprise<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Maxime Accadia <maxime.accadia@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>; Kasper, Ryan V. <Ryan.V.Kasper@leidos.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> enterprise <enterprise@mozilla.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen in ESR 78<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Maxime,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Maxime Accadia <<a href="mailto:maxime.accadia@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr">maxime.accadia@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 07, 2020 4:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kasper, Ryan V. <<a href="mailto:Ryan.V.Kasper@leidos.com">Ryan.V.Kasper@leidos.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Philipp Madersbacher <<a href="mailto:philipp.madersbacher@gmail.com">philipp.madersbacher@gmail.com</a>>; Harkins, Steve <<a href="mailto:sharkins@ti.com">sharkins@ti.com</a>>; enterprise <<a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org">enterprise@mozilla.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen in ESR 78<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">De:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"enterprise" <<a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org">enterprise@mozilla.org</a>><br>
<b>À: </b>"Philipp Madersbacher" <<a href="mailto:philipp.madersbacher@gmail.com">philipp.madersbacher@gmail.com</a>>, "Harkins, Steve" <<a href="mailto:sharkins@ti.com">sharkins@ti.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"enterprise" <<a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org">enterprise@mozilla.org</a>><br>
<b>Envoyé: </b>Lundi 6 Juillet 2020 18:37:05<br>
<b>Objet: </b>Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen in ESR 78<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_mozilla_policy-2Dtemplates_blob_master_README.md-23usermessaging&d=DwMGaQ&c=2WwxlqHD_9GeHFEUsOHZXg&r=a0pF-r4VjZCyzB4zxbRDcONPyw-KRRoDiBPd4lDRky8&m=U_bCHXmVOFlray9MhdwpVeRQO72zf_1RKyHFD8A3fPU&s=79yGNmiRGusd498TuyfsuSkaMGDK8fHNoZFqMhRXS-I&e=" target="_blank">
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#usermessaging</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Steve – you can use the admx GPO templates available here
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https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates</a> or create a policies.json file under %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution (you will need to create the distribution folder, too)…</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ryan V. Kasper</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Leidos - Software Packaging</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Enterprise <<a href="mailto:enterprise-bounces@mozilla.org">enterprise-bounces@mozilla.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Philipp Madersbacher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 6, 2020 9:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Harkins, Steve <<a href="mailto:sharkins@ti.com">sharkins@ti.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org">enterprise@mozilla.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> EXTERNAL: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen in ESR 78</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi, I assume this can be controlled through the following preference/policy:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Am Mo., 6. Juli 2020 um 15:34 Uhr schrieb Harkins, Steve via Enterprise <<a href="mailto:enterprise@mozilla.org" target="_blank">enterprise@mozilla.org</a>>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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