On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:41 PM, Daniel Frey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've had some time to modify our AD environment to start applying GPOs > to Firefox. > > So far, everything seems to be working, as far as I can tell. I was able > to disable pocket, turn off spying (I mean telemetry, due to policies > outside our control we can't allow that in our environment) as well as > install extensions and the like. > > I do have a few questions... > > 1. I've disabled pocket (as in: it's nowhere in the menus), but the > newtab is still giving me pocket suggestions? > Disabling pocket is about disabling the extension integration. See the next answer.... > > 2. Is there a way to customize the newtab interface for new users? We > have a lot of non-tech-savvy users and the new tab will be overwhelming > for these users. Ideally, having the newtab set to a blank page would be > ideal, enforced through GPO. This doesn't necessarily need to be a > locked pref, if our power users want to show their history/etc that's > not an issue, so just an initial setting would be great. > I plan to have this in the next release (September 5). It's been requested by multiple folks. It will mainly be just turning on and off the various new tab prefs. > > 3. Most importantly, I can't find a way to redirect the bookmarks. We > map a user share and I've redirected IE to put their favorites/bookmarks > there so that they are captured during the backup. From reading online > you can manually set up a new profile location which would include the > bookmarks and other bits in the profile, but it would be more ideal to > map it to their home directory/drive via GPO. Assuming, of course, this > doesn't lead to cache information being stored on our server. > Unfortunately this is a capability that Firefox doesn't support anymore. I'm trying to figure out if there is some clever way to do it. Mike > > Thanks for any insight, > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > 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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