Ah yes, this is working as expected. The Homepage policy is tied to the set of tabs that open for every new window (or also when you click the "Home" button in the toolbar).
The policy that you're looking for is OverrideFirstRunPage, which will do exactly what you want. The only problem with that is that it only supports one URL right now (to be honest I never knew the startup.homepage_welcome_url pref supported more than one) If you file a bug in the Firefox :: Enterprise Policies component about supporting more than one, we can get that support added for you. Best, Felipe On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:12 PM Stephen Dowdy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/24/18 4:44 PM, Felipe Gomes wrote: > > The first implementation of the Homepage policy also forced the setting > of > > browser.startup.page to 1, because some users were getting confused if it > > didn't force the homepage to open. This was intentional at that time, > but > > we realized that it was a mistake, so we fixed that with bug > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469951, which means that > this > > fix will be released with Firefox 64. > > > > (In the meantime, for Firefox 63, as long as you don't use the "Locked" > > setting of the Homepage policy, and don't make any more changes to it, > your > > choice of browser.startup.page=3 will remain) > > I think you are referring to my current situation where i manually reset > sessionrestore. > (i.e. it's going to stay unless i change my policies to use locked home > pages) > > > Apologies for the confusion it might have caused. As for your lost > session, > > there are backups! In your profile directory, look for a > > sessionstore-backups folder, and follow the instructions here to recover: > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1221836 > > > > Hope that helps! > > Thanks for the bit about recovering sessionstore-backups. I'll check that > out. > > Another unexpected thing... I'm getting the 3 homepages for each new > window opened. > I don't recall if that was a prefs change i'd made or not. > > I operate from the "defaultPref()" model in mozilla.cfg (i want to help > you have a "sane" (as defined by me ;) ) default, but feel free to change > it), so maybe the Policy Engine is changing the defaults, but wouldn't > alter those set with "pref()" (aka user_pref()). > > I haven't had much chance to debug at this point. > > Hmm, i'd just grep'd before in initial post, but here's the actual > relevant bits from mozilla.cfg: > > defaultPref("browser.startup.homepage", > "data:text/plain,browser.startup.homepage=http://...|http://...|http:// > ..."); > ... > // if ( getPref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone") === null > ) { > defaultPref("startup.homepage_welcome_url", > "data:text/plain,startup.homepage_welcome_url=http:...|http:...|http:...."); > // } > defaultPref("browser.startup.homepage", > "data:text/plain,browser.startup.homepage=about:blank"); > **hmm, i'm replacing what i used before likely due to figuring out the > diff between these settings** > defaultPref("ui.use_activity_cursor",true); > // defaultPref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "ignore"); > defaultPref("browser.sessionstore.enabled", true); > defaultPref("browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash", true); > // 0=<blank>, 1=HomePage, 2=<lastvisited> , 3=SessionRestore > defaultPref("browser.startup.page", 3); > > I've got some stuff commented out there. IIRC (it's been like 10 years > since i worked on that section), the commented parts were about milestone > changes (i think that changed every udpate) overwriting stuff. > > Since it's commented, i'm now apparently setting the > 'browser.startup.homepage' pref to about:blank, but the > 'startup.homepage_welcome_url' pref to the list i want my users to have > initially. > > I guess the HomePage Policy is then more likely tied to the > 'browser.startup.homepage' pref, which opens homepages per new window, > whereas i want it to be more like the 'startup.homepage_welcome_url'. > Keeping track of this stuff is getting confusing. Any guidance you can > give me is welcome. > I'm thinking right now, that as long as you keep the above preferences, > that i want to use those, and NOT the Homepage policy, as it is going to > open those homepages for every new window, which is certainly NOT what i > want. > > I just want to setup default first-time homepages for new profiles for new > users, and let them do what they want with them, but not have them recur > for every new window they open. > > thanks, > --stephen > -- > Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL > 303.497.2869 - [email protected] - > http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ > >
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