Dear Mike,

thanks for your effort!

Best regards,
 Thimo

On 06.07.2018 21:53, Mike Kaply wrote:
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] <mailto:[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
    <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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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
            <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


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