I'll hold off on answers to the profile per install (need to do some research), but there have been no changes to Autoconfig that would cause the behavior that you are seeing.
Are you not using policies at all (A lot of those get locked). Mike On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:44 PM Stephen Dowdy <[email protected]> wrote: > YES, i know ff 67.0 is not ESR. But, inevitably these changes will come > down the pike, and i'm having a bit of trouble finding useful info. > > > First: The "Profile per Install" really screws me up, as i have an NFS > shared linux environment where users get firefox via /usr/local/firefox > which is a symbolic link to /usr/local/firefox-{version} (e.g. > firefox-67.0). I use autofs automounter also, but the resolved-realpath > changes for every release, and so the code is going to "help me out" by > generating a spankin' new Profile for all my users all the time. That's > entirely untenable. I've updated bug: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528082 > > asking for something more than a proposed Environment Variable (hopefully > mozilla.cfg admin pref) to keep this from happening. > > > Second: Al l(or at least many) of my mozilla.cfg "defaultPref()" values > now seem to be "LOCKED" in about:config. (what the?!) > Did something change in the autoconfig world intentionally or accidentally? > > there's a very good reason to defaultPref() to set desired values w/o > being hostile to my user-base and letting them change if they really > need/want to. If that functionality is being designed away, then i have to > figure out some other way to deal with this. > > Any clues/guidance/pointers highly appreciated. > > thanks, > --stephen > > > -- > Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL > 303.497.2869 - [email protected] - > http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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