Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Add-on Signing in ESR

2016-02-04 Thread James Pearson
ct ... IMHO keeping the preference in all future ESR (major) versions would be the acceptable plan for enterprise environments Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe fr

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Add-on Signing in ESR

2016-02-03 Thread James Pearson
this option remain in all future ESR releases Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox 45 ESR on CentOS 6 and Totem plug-ins

2016-03-19 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: We've been using the RHEL/CentOS Totem plug-ins with Firefox 38 ESR (Mozilla supplied Firefox binaries) to play various movies without a problem on CentOS 6 However, these plug-ins don't (fully) work with Firefox 45 ESR - they work if I use a 'file://...' URL to load

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Fwd: Re: Fwd: NPAPI "exact" support end - will ESR52 still support NPAPI?

2016-03-24 Thread James Pearson
eral plugin policy" Will that still be the case with major releases after 52/ESR52 ? Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit htt

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Beta version of ESR 52 ?

2017-02-24 Thread James Pearson
Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le 22/12/2016 à 15:50, James Pearson a écrit : >> Will there be a beta of ESR 52 available before ESR 52 is released? > For now, we are not planning to do beta builds for ESR52. > We consider that 52.0esr and 52.1esr will give enough time to test and fix &

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Beta version of ESR 52 ?

2017-02-24 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > I notice the first 'tinderbox-builds' of ESR 52 have appeared under: > >http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/tinderbox-builds/ > > However, this build only supports the Flash plugin - the code to allow > non-Flash NPAPI plugins hasn't bee

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Manually adding a dictionary

2017-02-23 Thread James Pearson
;en-GB"); which will make this the default for all users (you might want to use defaultPref() or lockPref() instead, depending on how you want to manage this) No idea if this is the 'right' way of doing this, but it works for me ... James Pearson _

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Importing certificates

2017-02-10 Thread James Pearson
the proxy server when I want to open a e-journals web site. What could be the problem? You probably need to import the Root CA certificate(s) for the proxy server (via the Authorities import) instead James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Deploy Firefox to Mac with cfg and js config files

2017-03-01 Thread James Pearson
David Stupple wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list. I am trying to deploy Firefox ESR 45 with > included autoconfig.js and Mozilla.cfg files. When I attempt to > deploy to the latest version of Yosemite, the application is > installed correctly but it seems unable to assign the appropriate >

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quicktime and MP4 playback with ESR 45 on Macintosh?

2016-09-27 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: We've just moved to ESR 45 from ESR 38 on a number of Macs, but are having problems playing back Quicktime videos - the 'error' is 'Video can't be played because the file is corrupt' However, setting the preference media.mp4.enabled to false, allows these Quicktimes play

[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox and 'Pepper' plug-ins?

2016-10-03 Thread James Pearson
/flashplayer.html James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to enterprise-requ

[Mozilla Enterprise] Quicktime and MP4 playback with ESR 45 on Macintosh?

2016-09-26 Thread James Pearson
type is treated as MP4 media to be handled by the built-in HTML5 video player. But MOV files can contain a variety of different encodings, they are not all MP4. Does anyone know of a work around for this problem with ESR 45 ? Thanks James Pearson

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quicktime and MP4 playback with ESR 45 on Macintosh?

2016-09-28 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: It looks like this is a bug/regression that was introduced in Firefox 45 - and a fix was added to Firefox 47 (BZ # 1251184 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251184>) I've updated BZ #1251184 to see if the fix can be added to ESR 45 - are there any M

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quicktime and MP4 playback with ESR 45 on Macintosh?

2016-11-16 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: James Pearson wrote: It looks like this is a bug/regression that was introduced in Firefox 45 - and a fix was added to Firefox 47 (BZ # 1251184 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251184>) I've updated BZ #1251184 to see if the fix can be added to

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] deactivate any Videos in Mozilla Firefox 45.4.0 ESR

2016-11-15 Thread James Pearson
autoconfig settings Also is it possible to add certificates in Firefox automatically from the IE? You can add certificates by using CCK2 <https://mike.kaply.com/cck2/> James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] FireFox not working for HTTPS sites

2016-11-02 Thread James Pearson
to access the Internet James Pearson From: Pray, Roger [roger.p...@bassett.org] Sent: 02 November 2016 20:12 To: 'enterprise@mozilla.org' Subject: [Mozilla Enterprise] FireFox not working for HTTPS sites We’ve had FireFox deployed in our Enterprise for quite

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Proxy specific websites in Firefox ESR 45

2016-12-05 Thread James Pearson
directly. Currently I am using ip addresses of the websites in configuration file of IKEv2 server as leftsubnets. Anyone have better recomendations? You might want to look into a PAC/WPAD set up - e.g. see: http://findproxyforurl.com/ James Pearson

[Mozilla Enterprise] Beta version of ESR 52 ?

2016-12-22 Thread James Pearson
52 and FF 52 - which include support for all NPAPI plug-ins (other than just Flash) and continued support for unsigned extensions Therefore, it would be good to get a beta release of ESR 52 when the FF 52 beta is available Thanks James Pearson

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Edit Allowed Popup Site list

2017-04-13 Thread James Pearson
able to do this for you - see https://mike.kaply.com/cck2/ James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] I filled a bugreport at JAVA.com :-) ... because: Verify JAVA applet does NOT even try to run in FF ESR 52 (32-bit)

2017-03-08 Thread James Pearson
SR 52 browsers - but there doesn't appear to be a way of telling 'Firefox 52' and 'Firefox ESR 52' apart via the User Agent string ... If you 'fake' your User Agent string (to pretend to be a previous version of Firefox), then that page will load with ESR 52 James Pearson _

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Deactive securtiy notification

2017-03-08 Thread James Pearson
Aspoeck, Torben wrote: > Hello, > > it is possible to deactivate the following security notification within the > config file or somewhere else? Try setting the following preference to false: security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled J

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR doesn't work correctly with Xvnc

2017-08-11 Thread James Pearson
these extensions will no longer work with future releases of Firefox anyway? James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Disable the internal PDF viewer

2017-07-12 Thread James Pearson
Harji, Menesh: > > I am trying to add this on the cfg file but the below does not work as the > Brower does not open. > This is from the sample code from the website > > // Disable the internal PDF viewer > pref("pdfjs.disabled", true);] The ']' character sh

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Super slow pages after update from 45.9->52.1 ESR

2017-05-03 Thread James Pearson
If you go to about:buildconfig, the 'Built from' URL for 52.1.0esr-candidates build1 should be (I believe): https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr52/rev/7beb59bc3482523ad6811fd3984949204d763810 James Pearson From: Jim Weill [moon

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox deployment/configuration/update guides?

2017-05-03 Thread James Pearson
layMenuBar": true, "dontCheckDefaultBrowser": true, "disableCrashReporter": true, "disableTelemetry": true, ... "bookmarks": mybookmarks, ... "certs": { "ca": [ { ... }; If you are hacking a CCK2 cfg file

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] automating first-run tasks (changing application handlers, preinstalled plugins)

2017-05-12 Thread James Pearson
to work I haven't needed Widevine - but I guess something similar may work ? Location of the download from: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr52/file/tip/toolkit/content/gmp-sources/widevinecdm.json James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing lis

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] whitelist for "unsecure connection" password prompt

2017-05-24 Thread James Pearson
The original question was is there a way to have 'security.insecure_password.ui.enabled' only be 'false' for certain hosts/domains ... I believe the answer is no (with or without CCK2) James Pearson Kaply Consulting wrote: > For that, all you can do is change a prefere

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] IETab on Firefox 52 ESR

2017-05-30 Thread James Pearson
n if you set xpinstall.signatures.required' to 'false' ? James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or s

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] automating first-run tasks (changing application handlers, preinstalled plugins)

2017-06-08 Thread James Pearson
/52.2.0esr-candidates/build1/linux-x86_64/ My central autoconf cfg file has: pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.autoupdate", false); pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled", true); defaultPref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.version", "system-installed"); James Pearson _

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] automating first-run tasks (changing application handlers, preinstalled plugins)

2017-06-09 Thread James Pearson
the Path given in about:plugins - and then it does work ... Not sure why Firefox says it's installed when it actually isn't - possibly a 'bug' or 'feature' ? I guess I had just assumed it was working previously :-) Thanks James Pearson ___ Enter

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] automating first-run tasks (changing application handlers, preinstalled plugins)

2017-06-12 Thread James Pearson
ileUtils.getDir("GreD", ["browser", > "plugins", "gmp-gmpopenh264", "system-installed"]).path); > lockPref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.autoupdate", false); > defaultPref("media.gmp-gmpo

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] FF ESR 45.9.0 > FF ESR 52.2.0

2017-06-14 Thread James Pearson
TK 3 - FF 53 and above don't support building with GTK 2 James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterp

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quantum ESR

2017-11-23 Thread James Pearson
er 'Quantum' is (I'm guessing 'Quantum' is just a marketing term ???) Mozilla do not backport major changes to an ESR series, so minor ESR version changes will only have security fixes (and possibly the odd bug fix) applied i.e. ESR 52.5.0 will not contain any of the 'Quantum' changes with Firef

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Investigate why so many people wrongly subscribe to this list (was: RE: Quantum ESR)

2017-11-29 Thread James Pearson
i.e. only those that _really_ want to sign up will follow the list link James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.moz

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Investigate why so many people wrongly subscribe to this list (was: RE: Quantum ESR)

2017-11-30 Thread James Pearson
Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > On 29/11/2017 10:56, James Pearson wrote: > >> I believe the 'problem' is the web page at: >> >>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ >> >> This is the page that most people will arrive at when sear

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Investigate why so many people wrongly subscribe to this list (was: RE: Quantum ESR)

2017-12-05 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: >> >>> I believe the 'problem' is the web page at: >>> >>> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ >>> >>> This is the page that most people will arrive at when searching for info >>> about the ESR

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Investigate why so many people wrongly subscribe to this list (was: RE: Quantum ESR)

2017-12-18 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > If anyone is interested, Mozilla have made available a 'screenshot' of > the proposed replacement page for > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ at: > >https://screenshots.firefox.com/lUwglCpTWahzqgkZ/127.0.0.1 > > This al

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Releasenotes for ESR 52.5.1 missing

2017-12-08 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > >> We will be publishing an ESR 52.5.2 probably tomorrow. We were not >> happy with 52.5.1 and we decided to postpone it. > > OK - thanks for the info Looks like ESR 52.5.2 has now been released However, in common with previous 'minor.minor' r

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Releasenotes for ESR 52.5.1 missing

2017-12-07 Thread James Pearson
Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > We will be publishing an ESR 52.5.2 probably tomorrow. We were not > happy with 52.5.1 and we decided to postpone it. OK - thanks for the info James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Releasenotes for ESR 52.5.1 missing

2017-12-06 Thread James Pearson
dates/build1/) Interestingly, Redhat have recently released an update of their rebuild of Firefox to ESR 52.5.1 ... James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Announcing the next Extended Support Release of Firefox - ESR60 with policy engine

2017-12-20 Thread James Pearson
ecedence if you use policy engine and one of the above existing tools ? I guess it's no coincidence that the example JSON file file looks a lot like the .cfg file created CCK2 :-) and the current listed Policies are a subset of what CCK2 currently supports - is the plan to eventually support al

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Investigate why so many people wrongly subscribe to this list (was: RE: Quantum ESR)

2017-12-21 Thread James Pearson
rise_deployment. > The “Enterprise Wiki” doesn’t appear to contain any info of immediate > use to sysadmins. Probably worth requesting this via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ as a new 'bug' - under 'Product: www.mozilla.org' and 'Component: Pages &

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox Quantom and CCK2

2018-05-09 Thread James Pearson
018/04/24/enterprise-policy-support-in-firefox/ James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] GTK2 and Firefox 60esr

2018-06-07 Thread James Pearson
Martin Stransky wrote: >> >> However, I would also like to know how they plan to support FF60 in >> el6 ... > > We're going to ship gtk3 (on some form) for Firefox60 on RHEL6. That > does not mean gtk3 will be generally available on RHEL6 (AFAIK). Thanks for

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] GTK2 and Firefox 60esr

2018-06-06 Thread James Pearson
ESR cycle (FF59)." However, I would also like to know how they plan to support FF60 in el6 ... James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Format of inline IconURL for SearchEngines in policies.json ?

2018-06-26 Thread James Pearson
eight) { var uri = makeURI(aIconURL); // Ignore bad URIs if (!uri) return; LOG("_setIcon: Setting icon url \"" + limitURILength(uri.spec) + "\" for engine \"" + this.name + &q

[Mozilla Enterprise] Format of inline IconURL for SearchEngines in policies.json ?

2018-06-26 Thread James Pearson
the policies.json syntax: "IconURL": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0...YII=", but I just get a generic icon for my Search Engine The Policy Engine docs don't give any info on what the syntax should be - except stating: "URL to icon" ... Anyone know what the correct sy

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] HTTP to HTTPS redirect problem

2018-01-11 Thread James Pearson
OFILE_RESTART=1 then the firefox profile will be reset when you start firefox However, you don't want to keep that setting - otherwise the profile will be reset _each_ time you start firefox ... James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mo

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Installing and enabling an add-on silently

2018-01-11 Thread James Pearson
nable it. Have a look at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Enterprise_deployment#Configuration and: https://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/16/customizing-firefox-autoconfig-files/ on how to set these preferences in an autoconfig file James Pearson ___

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] npapi support .

2018-01-08 Thread James Pearson
t; (See >> https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/) > > Yes, I can confirm that NPAPI support won't be available in Firefox ESR 60. I'm guessing NPAPI support for Flash will still exist in ESR 60 - and future versions of ESR unti

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] FF on Linux Fedora 27 change --profile all users when using NFS

2018-01-31 Thread James Pearson
edhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/5.11_technical_notes/known_issues-firefox Might not make it faster - but probably more stable :-) James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/list

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Deploy Pinned Tabs

2018-02-13 Thread James Pearson
mething to be supported by the forthcoming 'Policy Engine' feature ? James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] " Remember History" should be enabled always

2018-02-14 Thread James Pearson
to 'on' I guess you will also want to disable Private Browsing ? - if so, then this can be done via CCK2 - which also removes the 'Never remember history' menu item James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.o

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR 52.6 released

2018-02-07 Thread James Pearson
I leave Oracle. > My job is eliminated. I don't use Solaris, so don't know if a ESR 52.6 build is available elsewhere - but given ESR 52.0 has been built on Solaris, it should be possible to build 52.6 from source using the same build set up (what that is!) James Pearson

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Layout options in latest versions of FF

2018-02-16 Thread James Pearson
to what you want by uncommenting the following two lines in the userChrome.css file: @import url(./css/tabs/tabs_below_titlebar_above_navigation_toolbar.css); @import url(./css/toolbars/toolbar_mode_text.css); James Pearson ___ Ente

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] " Remember History" should be enabled always

2018-02-15 Thread James Pearson
ike.kaply.com/cck2/ and other posts at https://mike.kaply.com/ James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/ent

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Layout options in latest versions of FF

2018-02-16 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > There was a thread on this list last month that mentioned a possible > 'replacement' for Classic Theme Restorer see: > >https://mail.mozilla.org/private/enterprise/2018-January/008360.html > > That post stated: > >> Apparently, the wa

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Investigate why so many people wrongly subscribe to this list (was: RE: Quantum ESR)

2018-02-15 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: >>> >>> While we’re making adjustments, the section on “How do I configure >>> Firefox for my organization?” should definitely link to the actual >>> community-supported answer to that question, namely >>> https://developer.mo

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] CCK2 Fault? (era: Re: Setting Firefox 52 ESR to use built in PDF viewer)

2018-02-21 Thread James Pearson
"preferences": { ... "plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types": { "value": "application/pdf" }, ... }, Do you have something like this in your cck cfg file ? James Pearson ___ En

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Policy data format for Bookmarks in Firefox

2018-02-23 Thread James Pearson
d with ESR 60 (which is is due in about 10 weeks time) - the Wiki page at <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/EnterprisePolicies> only lists 'possibilities' ... Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mo

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Policy data format for Bookmarks in Firefox

2018-02-23 Thread James Pearson
bugs here: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1428920 Thanks - using a search based on Component = 'Enterprise Policies', I get: https://mzl.la/2Cg0VIj Which sort of gives a list of all the policies ... James Pearson ___ Enterpr

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Investigate why so many people wrongly subscribe to this list (was: RE: Quantum ESR)

2017-12-28 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > Schuetz, Zach wrote: >> >> While we’re making adjustments, the section on “How do I configure >> Firefox for my organization?” should definitely link to the actual >> community-supported answer to that question, namely >> https://de

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] search widget in autoconfig file

2017-12-28 Thread James Pearson
file) will not work with 57 - so you will have to use an earlier Firefox version (e.g. ESR 52) to generate a suitable cfg and cck2 files that will work with 57 James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.or

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR 52.5.3 released

2018-01-02 Thread James Pearson
US/firefox/52.5.3/re= leasenotes/ James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] policies.json & Search

2018-08-02 Thread James Pearson
> to create the policies.json file instead of hand-crafting it ? James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/list

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] policies.json & Search

2018-08-02 Thread James Pearson
xisting profile, > because with autoconfig.js it only worked on new profile) "StartPage" is > not defined as search engine nor the default. > > Am I missing something? Or is something wrong, e.g. URLTemplate? I believe the thing you are searching for is specified by '

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Configuring without CCK2

2018-09-06 Thread James Pearson
The wizard will not work with ESR 60 You will need to install the latest CCK2 with ESR 52 - but the autoconfig files it creates can be used with ESR 60 (unzip what the wizard creates at the top level of your ESR 60 install) James Pearson Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Sep 2018, at 18:16, P

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Policy data format for Bookmarks in Firefox

2018-03-01 Thread James Pearson
hat Autoconfig will still exist - as I use it for more than just setting prefs and using CCK2 Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, pleas

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Policy data format for Bookmarks in Firefox

2018-03-13 Thread James Pearson
than just setting prefs and >> using CCK2 > > It will probably still exist, but it will be sandboxed back to the original > API so it can be used as intended. Not sure what you mean by 'sandboxed back to the original API' ... What was the original API? - and does that mean there wi

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] autoinstall and autoupdate extension from AMO for new and exist users

2018-04-12 Thread James Pearson
erences in your autoconfig cfg file - see https://mike.kaply.com/2012/02/21/understanding-add-on-scopes/ James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, pleas

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR App V pacakge too many crashes

2018-04-16 Thread James Pearson
Mozilla dropped build support for gtk2 after v52 The gtk2 directory in builds after 52 are just to support the Flash plugin - which is gtk2 only ... James Pearson Sent from my iPhone > On 16 Apr 2018, at 17:25, Andrew C Aitchison <and...@aitchison.me.uk> wrote: > > the late

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR App V pacakge too many crashes

2018-04-16 Thread James Pearson
Redhat release of ESR 52 is built with '--disable-crashreporter' The Linux builds of ESR 52 from Mozilla won't run on EL6 (as EL6 doesn't support gtk3) However, it should be fairly straightforward to rebuild the Redhat/CentOS/SL Firefox SRPM on EL6 without then '--disable-crashreporter' opti

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Policy Manager and AutoConfig

2018-03-16 Thread James Pearson
would define 'only be controlled by a sysadmin' - our NFS share path is not a 'standard' location that you would find on a Linux install, but it is only writable by root ... Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mai

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Policy Manager and AutoConfig

2018-03-16 Thread James Pearson
Config file and possibly a Policy json file for use with ESR 60+ ? Unless, that is, you are planning a WebExtensions version of CCK2 ? Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/ente

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Testing CCK2 configs with Quantum

2018-03-01 Thread James Pearson
from Mozilla are self contained and run on EL7 (and easier to install CCK2 ...) James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mo

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox Customized Roaming Default Profile For All Users Logging Into a System

2018-03-05 Thread James Pearson
start with the 'Configuration' section at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Enterprise_deployment Or, have a look at CCK2 via https://mike.kaply.com/cck2/ James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/li

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Policy data format for Bookmarks in Firefox

2018-02-28 Thread James Pearson
ation.json file? Or, will arbitrary preferences still have to be set via the autoconfig cfg file? Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, plea

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] upcoming ESR 68 / Impact of "Dedicated profiles per Firefox installation"

2019-05-31 Thread James Pearson
Thanks James Pearson Dave Townsend wrote: > > Currently as long as SNAP_NAME is defined to something it will disable > profiles-per-install, but there is an intention to replace that method of > detecting snap packaged so I can't guarantee that that will exist long-term. > > On T

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] upcoming ESR 68 / Impact of "Dedicated profiles per Firefox installation"

2019-05-30 Thread James Pearson
it's > targeted at a different use case right now, so if important I'd like > to use a different name for it) but it applies to any version and > channel of Firefox. What is the environment variable and what does it need to be set to for disabling dedicated profiles ? Thanks James Pea

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] upcoming ESR 68 / Impact of "Dedicated profiles per Firefox installation"

2019-05-28 Thread James Pearson
nced the bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528082> I would also like to know how this is going to be handled in ESR 68 and whether or not it can be disabled We can not have users moving from ESR 60 to ESR 68, or between different subsequent releases of ESR and have th

[Mozilla Enterprise] Preventing Firefox from downloading langpacks ?

2019-06-25 Thread James Pearson
... Is there any way to turn off these downloads - and use (single copies of) centrally installed langpacks instead ? I'm not aware of this happening with ESR 52 (and earlier) Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Downgrade Protection and Profile Per Installation in Firefox 68

2019-06-26 Thread James Pearson
version) With ESR 68 and above, will each of our separate installs require a separate profile ? - or does 'installation' in this context mean Nightly, Beta, ESR, etc ? Thanks James Pearson From: Enterprise [enterprise-boun...@mozilla.org] on behalf of Mike Kaply

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Preventing Firefox from downloading langpacks ?

2019-06-26 Thread James Pearson
appears to fix the problem for us I'll do some some more poking about to see if I can find out 'how' these langpacks are being installed in user profile directories James Pearson From: Mike Kaply [mka...@mozilla.com] Sent: 25 June 2019 20:25 To: James Pearson Cc

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Preventing Firefox from downloading langpacks ?

2019-06-26 Thread James Pearson
We're just using the Mozilla provided tar archive - so there is no distribution directory in that package ... We're going to see if we can reproduce the issue and attempt to 'see' where they are coming from James Pearson From: Mike Kaply [mka...@mozilla.com

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Preventing Firefox from downloading langpacks ?

2019-07-04 Thread James Pearson
of langpacks, so they had been previously copied to user profiles from this install Setting 'extensions.installDistroAddons' to 'false' doesn't actually doing anything now as we are using the Mozilla build of ESR 60 (although it would if were still using the Redhat/CentOS build) Thanks James Pearson

[Mozilla Enterprise] Help converting a 'POST' search engine plugin to a Policy ?

2019-07-08 Thread James Pearson
ver/search;> Does anyone know how to translate the above into a suitable "PostData" string for a policies.json file ? Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Help converting a 'POST' search engine plugin to a Policy ?

2019-07-08 Thread James Pearson
Mike Kaply wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 8:45 AM James Pearson >> wrote: >> I have an existing search engine XML file that I would like to convert >> to a Policy entry >> >> The search engine uses the 'POST' method, but I can't work out w

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] CCTK xpi install fails - 'does not contain a valid manifest'

2019-07-15 Thread James Pearson
version generates are now compatible with ESR 68 i.e. install the latest 'Wizard' on an older install of Firefox (e.g ESR 52) and use it to generate the autoconfig files to be installed with ESR 68 Or, even better, start using Policies instead ... James Pearson

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] (no subject)

2019-08-29 Thread James Pearson
on release is about right for us I guess if you went to (say) a 6 monthly major version release, then you would need to keep a 6 month overlap - with each major release supported for a year - i.e. always have the latest and previous release supported James Pearson

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] (no subject)

2019-09-18 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: Mike Kaply wrote: Share your thoughts on ESR Release Cadence We would love your feedback in our current cadence of Firefox Extended Support releases. Today, an ESR life cycle spans between 9 months to a year. We would like to understand if a shorter life cycle

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR Offline Patching solution.

2019-08-01 Thread James Pearson
e > actively looking at Flatpak I assume you will also keep the current bzip'd tar archives ? Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, plea

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Autoupdate cannot be disabled anymore in mozilla.cfg

2019-09-24 Thread James Pearson
Yes - although to make life easier, use the Enterprise Policy Generator from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enterprise-policy-generator/ James Pearson Paul Kosinski via Enterprise wrote: So the JSON file can be used on Linux to do this? On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:23:23 -0500

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] ESR 60 to 68, old profile

2019-09-23 Thread James Pearson
communicating to all enterprise users how to revert their profile after? If you set the variable MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES in the environment (it can be set to anything), then this will allow users to use their existing profile James Pearson ___ Enterprise

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox

2019-11-04 Thread James Pearson
extensions to be sideloaded ??? Thanks James Pearson P.S. I'm still a bit confused about 'sideloading' - as the Blog post says the change will be with Firefox 73/74 - but I can't seem to enable 'sideloading' with ESR 68 - i.e. want to be able to load named extensions from a central location without

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox

2019-11-06 Thread James Pearson
Is it likely that Mozilla will re-think this change as far as ESR is concerned? i.e. allow 'sideloading' of extensions in all future releases of ESR - potentially controlled via a Policy ? Thanks James Pearson Mike Kaply wrote: You can deploy extensions as a part of Firefox by putting

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox

2019-11-05 Thread James Pearson
to work with all future major ESR releases ... Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] What Happened to Flash?

2019-12-06 Thread James Pearson
The very latest Flash plugin doesn’t run on CentOS 7 (needs a newer libgcc than provided by the OS) - which might be your problem? Previous versions work with ESR 68 on CentOS 7 James Pearson Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Dec 2019, at 22:57, Stephen Carville (Mozilla List) via Enterpr

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Failed to read the configuration file after recent update

2019-12-12 Thread James Pearson
6b3d4840cc01a8f1a8ec/README.md#searchengines--default James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or se

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Problem with custom protocol handler in autoconfig file and ESR 68

2019-10-15 Thread James Pearson
pdfjs.disabled is set to false Thanks James Pearson Mike Kaply wrote: That's quite strange. Are you sure you're not somehow accidentally turning it off? What do you see for the value of pdfjs.disabled when you go to about:config? Mike On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 10:25 AM James Pearson

[Mozilla Enterprise] Problem with custom protocol handler in autoconfig file and ESR 68

2019-10-15 Thread James Pearson
tom protocol handler on the first run of Firefox appears to interfere with/break the built-it PDF viewer This is with Firefox ESR 68.1 on Linux Any idea what I can do to prevent this happening ? Thanks James Pearson ___ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mo

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