Dear Felipe,
actually in our case we just want to provide defaults to the users to
have a sane starting/reset condition.
Users should not be limited to change this setting if they have a good
reason (R&D).
Since Ubuntu's distribution.ini does not contain any value we just
diverted it out of the way:
dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert
/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini.unused
/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini
Since then, policies are working excellent. :-)
Maybe it is a good idea to mention the distribution.ini issue/limitation
(and possible workarounds) somewhere in the policies documentation.
Best regards,
Thimo Emmerich
On 22.06.2018 23:39, Felipe Gomes wrote:
Thanks for providing feedback!
This is exactly the bug you pointed out... It happens because when
there's a distribution.ini file present, during its load process the
default prefs gets reset.. This was noticed in bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1428923, but since "most"
use cases for policies use locked prefs, it wasn't considered a big
issue..
It's a valid bug that we want to fix, but it's non trivial because
this area is fragile... it's hard to know all the different things
that people are doing with distribution.ini and how a subtle change
might break things..
If you use the Locked option in the policies it should work as a
workaround. If there are policies that you need that a Locked option
is not supported (and is not the default), let us know so we can try
to provide more workarounds.
Best,
Felipe
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Emmerich, Thimo
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mike,
thanks for the quick reply.
On 21.06.2018 15:58, Mike Kaply wrote:
I assume you have a distribution.ini because you are on Linux?
Yes, we are using Ubuntu 14.04 - 18.04. The first one is phasing out.
As far as the trusted sites goes, that shouldn't have been
enterprise only and I will be removing it.
As a matter of fact, on Linux, none of this should have been
enterprise only and I will be removing that restriction.
The plan is for Firefox 62 to have all of these changes in.
Unfortunately we had other work so it didn't make it into 61.
We're targeting the rest of the enterprise work for 62/ESR 60.2.
Thats good news! I am not sure if Windows guys will also apply
policies in the future, but if they do I think it will be SSO
settings first.
Best regards,
Thimo
Mike
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 1:43 AM, Emmerich, Thimo
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear all,
thanks for providing the policies with latest FF60 release.
It is a very useful feature for distributing company specific
settings across client machines.
Unfortunately I observed that policies suffer from the same
distribution.ini bug as autoconfig does (see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947838#c15
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947838#c15> for
details).
The last item in our autoconfig is the configuration of SSO
(trusted uris). Is there a special reason to not support it
in non-ESR releases?
Best regards,
Thimo Emmerich
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