FYI, I've checked in a fix for the distribution problem. I'll be working to get it uplifted everywhere including the ESR.
Mike On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 5:54 AM, Emmerich, Thimo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > 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] >> > 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 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards >>> >>> Thimo Emmerich >>> >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> >>> European Technology Center (EuTEC) >>> >>> Phone: +49 (0) 711 / 5858 - 282 >>> E-mail: [email protected] >>> Internet: www.stuttgart.sony.de >>> >>> Sony Europe Limited, Zweigniederlassung Deutschland >>> Stuttgart Technology Center >>> Hedelfinger Str. 61, 70327 >>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=Hedelfinger+Str.+61,+70327&entry=gmail&source=g> >>> Stuttgart, Germany >>> >>> Registered at the Court of Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 129332 B >>> >>> Main Establishment: Sony Europe Limited >>> The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0XW, United Kingdom >>> Companies House Cardiff 2422874 >>> Directors: Shigeru Kumekawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Ricky Londema >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Enterprise mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to >>> [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >> >> >> >> -- >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards >> >> Thimo Emmerich >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> >> European Technology Center (EuTEC) >> >> Phone: +49 (0) 711 / 5858 - 282 >> E-mail: [email protected] >> Internet: www.stuttgart.sony.de >> >> Sony Europe Limited, Zweigniederlassung Deutschland >> Stuttgart Technology CenterHedelfinger Str. 61, 70327 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=Hedelfinger+Str.+61,+70327&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Stuttgart, Germany >> >> Registered at the Court of Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 129332 B >> >> Main Establishment: Sony Europe Limited >> The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0XW, United Kingdom >> Companies House Cardiff 2422874 >> Directors: Shigeru Kumekawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Ricky Londema >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Enterprise mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to >> [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >> > > > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards > > Thimo Emmerich > > ------------------------------------------- > > European Technology Center (EuTEC) > > Phone: +49 (0) 711 / 5858 - 282 > E-mail: [email protected] > Internet: www.stuttgart.sony.de > > Sony Europe Limited, Zweigniederlassung Deutschland > Stuttgart Technology CenterHedelfinger Str. 61, 70327 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=Hedelfinger+Str.+61,+70327&entry=gmail&source=g> > Stuttgart, Germany > > Registered at the Court of Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 129332 B > > Main Establishment: Sony Europe Limited > The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0XW, United Kingdom > Companies House Cardiff 2422874 > Directors: Shigeru Kumekawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Ricky Londema > >
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