Folks, For those who support a windows environment read on.
We use PolicyPak Software Application Manager (PPAM) on premise suite which includes a PAK for Firefox that allows us to manage it’s settings. The PPAM is a group policy extension product requiring a client agent, the PAKS for various software applications of which Firefox is just one is quite powerful. One unique feature is that the “PAK” with your defined settings checks for and applies the settings when Firefox is launched by the user. It provides an admin extension to the GPMC which allows you to manage using the same utility as regular Group policy. From deploying the commercial version of Firefox to our enterprise for the last 4 years using SCCM the take on the Firefox Installer either consumer or ESR is that the configuration information is either inside .js files or SQLLite Database files. This design makes it very good for cross-platform products but it makes it very challenging for Group Policy to be the managing process, for Group Policy primarily manages registry settings while Firefox does not want or care about the registry for the most part, certainly not for the user settings. Group Policy was designed to work with “Group Policy Aware” products and Firefox is not group policy aware and because of its core design it will not be natively group policy aware, yet the need is there and from this group there are multiple approaches brought forth, which is really amazing. I am very impressed with the creative methods discussed in this thread to address the issue. However there is a product call PolicyPak, it is a commercial product that just does what you want, Group Policy Management of Firefox and hundreds of other applications. So if you are in a windows environment and you absolutely have to manage aspects of an application that Microsoft Group Policy cannot address then take a look at PolicyPak. I have interacted with Jeremy Moskowitz the founder of PolicyPak a number of times and their support is awesome. Disclaimer: I have no financial relationship with PolicyPak and the opinions stated here are soley my own , I am simply an administrator that works for a company that has had the product in place for 3 years. It works. Thank you, John Delise Windows Deployment Engineer [Image32] From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anderson Gama Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Setting up Firefox ESR with Group Policies ? Hello Pascal, in the company where I work, we use Group Policy Templates from Frontmotion, on the site itself there is the possibility of using the installers in MSI but we prefer to install using the official Mozilla Firefox ESR executable. Attached is "Firefox.tar.gz" which contains the script and other configuration files that we use to install Firefox ESR using the Mozilla executable. Frontmotion Group Policy Templates: http://www.frontmotion.com/fmfirefoxce/download/ Firefox Script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FkK91U5YW6yrWZFWG8xMPvcKrF7Yh3kt/view?usp=sharing 2017-11-21 11:07 GMT-03:00 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: Hello all, A couple months ago we have been asked to answer a survey on whether setting up Firefox ESR with GPO would be a matter of interest. My question : Did you get many answers ? Were people interested by the idea ? Do you guys plan to have GPO admx we could use to do so ? Today we have FF ESR 52.x on hundreds of thousands Orange group internal workstations. We install it with SCCM and we set it up with a GPO module we have developed for this purpose. However our analysis indicates that with the coming out of Firefox ESR 59.X our module won’t be able to operate properly. We are therefore getting ready to change the way we set up parameters but before we start the study, build and deliver something to replace the current method I want to ask you if there is any plan on your side to provide such a GPO based solution. I believe groups similar to our group have similar needs : deploy and administrate Firefox ESR on hundreds of thousands users workstations and manage releases according to Mozilla roadmaps. Thanks for your help and insights Bien Cordialement / Best Regards [logo Orange]<http://www.orange.com/> Pascal Wulleput e-buro maintenance Team Leader Orange International Networks Infrastructures & Services tel : +33 223 066 836 cel: +33 633 467 082 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. 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