It does look like the two settings below will lockdown the checkboxes for
history which is better than nothing. Thank you for the suggestion.
PolicyPak has exceeded my expectations on globally managing Firefox across my
Enterprise. I can individually configure about:Config settings that are not in
the standard options menus.
lockPref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.history", false);
lockPref("privacy.cpd.history", false);
From: Joel Baltazor [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Robert A Vipperman (Services - 6)
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Prevent Deletion of History
I also set/lock this preference:
privacy.cpd.history = false.
I think it might prevent the "Clear" Recent history from removing Browsing &
download history. There's a larger list of similar preferences on this
mozillazine posting:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1882625
I'm not familiar with PolicyPak, but in my environment the cck2 is installed so
that it also applies to newly created profiles also. Is that not how PolicyPak
works?
-Joel
On 12/30/2015 1:55 PM, Robert A Vipperman (Services - 6) wrote:
Thank you Joel. I am using PolicyPak and I too am setting the
places.history.enabled value to true, but the user can simply hit clear history
to wipe everything. Also, the user could create a new profile, so I don’t
really know that there is a way that will always work.
From: Joel Baltazor [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:53 PM
To: Robert A Vipperman (Services - 6);
'[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>'
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Prevent Deletion of History
I use the cck2 to first disable Private Browsing mode, then also lock this
setting:
places.history.enabled = true
Using the cck2 I also set the "Don't allow Firefox to be reset on
about:support" setting (Miscellaneous tab) for other reasons, but I guess in
this case it would help preserve history.
It seems to do a decent job of keeping history around, however I have seen some
extensions being installed by end-users in an attempt to re-enable private
browsing mode (which does not store history). I don't have a great way to
prevent that except to uninstall them when I find them (or when our desktop
management software finds them). I suppose it can be a cat & mouse game, but
is very rare in our org.
HTH
-Joel
On 12/30/2015 1:06 PM, Robert A Vipperman (Services - 6) wrote:
I believe this has been discussed before, but I can seem to find it. My goal is
to prevent users from deleting their Firefox browser history. I do not know if
this is possible and I have been unable to find an answer using Google.
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