I'm testing with your policies.json and it's working for me in all cases. PDFs are downloading (not displayinh) and the toolbar was displayed.
Can you go to about:policies and see if there are any errors? Side note, I'm working on a better menu bar policy so you can permanently show or hide the menu bar. right now if a user hides it, it doesn't come back. Mike On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:37 AM Thane K. Sherrington < [email protected]> wrote: > As an update to this, I just installed Firefox on a fresh install of > Windows 10. > > My process was: > > Install Firefox with this command line: > > Firefox Setup 69.0.exe -ms > > then I copy policies.json to %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution > > { > "policies": { > "DisableBuiltinPDFViewer": true, > "DisplayBookmarksToolbar": true, > "DisplayMenuBar": true, > "FlashPlugin": { > "Default": true > }, > "NetworkPrediction": true, > "Proxy": { > "AutoLogin": true, > "Mode": "none", > "SOCKSVersion": 4, > "UseHTTPProxyForAllProtocols": true, > "UseProxyForDNS": false > }, > "SearchEngines": { > "Default": "Google", > "PreventInstalls": true > } > } > } > > Then I start Firefox. Sometimes the policies take hold, sometimes they > don't. > > In this case, the proxy setting held, but the tool bars settings and > disabling the internal PDF viewer didn't. > So clearly I'm doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thane K. Sherrington > > Computer Connection, Ltd. ...taking the mystery out of computers since > 1982. > Winner of the 2012 Ian Spencer - Excellence in Business Award > *Thanks for making us the Reader's Choice Best Computer Store in 2016, > 2017, and 2018!* > 95 College St., Antigonish, > NS B2G 1X6 > 902-863-3361 (phone) > 902-863-2580 (fax) > [email protected] > On 04/09/2019 9:17 p.m., Thane K. Sherrington wrote: > > On 22/07/2019 7:04 p.m., Mike Kaply wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:21 AM Thane K. Sherrington < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Things that work randomly: >> >> "DisplayBookmarksToolbar": true, >> "DisplayMenuBar": true >> >> These two work some of the time (I'd say about 70%). The rest of the >> time, I get none or one of the toolbars. >> >> I'm not sure if the other settings hold 100% of the time, because I >> can't check every install, but the toolbars are obvious. >> > These two policies only have an effect the first time they are set and a > user can override them. That's probably why you are getting mixed results/ > > So is there anyway to do this? > > Situation: User already has older version of FF installed. I want to > update to latest and apply new settings (turn on Menu Bar and Bookmarks > Toolbar, Turn off proxy). > > If I uninstall the old version of FF, and remove the > %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox folder, then reinstall, copy the > policies.json to %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution folder will > these new settings take effect, or (because there is already a profile > created) are they ignored (it appears they are ignored, but I'm not sure if > that's expected or not). > > BTW, the line "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": false has the opposite >> affect. If I include this line, then Firefox never asks if it should be >> the default, and if I don't include it, it asks about 80% of the time. >> > What version of Firefox? Being able to set it to false was something that > wasn't working until Firefox 67/ESR 60.7 > > Note that even if you say false, we won't necessarily ask at every startup. > > I'm using FF 68/69. How can I force FF to check 100% of the time? > Checking some of the time isn't the same as "Always check if FF is your > default browser" which makes this setting inaccurate and disingenuous. > > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing > [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" > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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