I'd also like to see an enterprise solution for bookmarks or Firefox Sync. Some ideas for a feature request:
* A group policy with a path value for automatic bookmark backup or synchronization. It would need to accept environmental variables and UNC paths, e.g. "%homeshare%\ Bookmarks" or "\\server\%username%" * Third-party authentication for Firefox Sync, such as Microsoft Azure. * Firefox Sync server for enterprise. ----------------------------------------- Jason Jackson Computer Systems Technician North Vancouver School District -----Original Message----- From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Frey Sent: July 25, 2018 12:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Mozilla Enterprise] Backing up bookmarks Hi all, I figured this should actually be in its own thread, I had other threads with parts of this conversation in it. In my previous threads, I tried redirecting the entire Firefox profile to a home drive with mediocre results. It moved the cache and everything over to a remote drive which is not good performance-wise. We can use the Firefox GPO now to set up any company related URLs which is great. The biggest problem I'm facing is we have users that roam. So if a user goes from computer A to computer B the bookmarks do not roam with them. I know there's no current way to deal with this directly using Firefox. There are some other ways that I can think of and am wondering how others deal with this problem. For roaming issues: 1) You can redirect the profile to the users' home drive. I've done this, it works, but with 100s of users this will be a significant performance impact to a remote drive. 2) It may be possible to use a GPO and redirect %appdata% entirely to a roaming share. There's some issues that come with this, but it won't have nearly as much of a performance impact as having every single user's cache on the remote drive. 3) A link can be created for %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox to a home drive. I've tried this and it works but while it is possible to create links via GPO in can cause other (potential) problems if something decides to start creating links everywhere. If all one is concerned about is backing up bookmarks (i.e. any backup is better than none): a) You could redirect the profile to a known directory in %appdata% using profiles.ini and use a GPO to sync the backupbookmarks folder. b) You can try setting firefox to autoexport bookmarks to HTML (using pref browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML) and use a the above in conjuction with this copy the resultant HTML file to a user's home drive. I've tried this and it doesn't seem to do anything. I've had mixed results with both a) and b) methods. The issue is clobbering a backup or html file with one not recent. Has anyone come up with an easy solution for this? We aren't able to use Sync due to regulations. After a bunch of testing this issue is really getting in our way. 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
