On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 7:17 PM Thane K. Sherrington < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/07/2019 7:04 p.m., Mike Kaply wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:21 AM Thane K. Sherrington < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Things that work randomly: >> >> "DisplayBookmarksToolbar": true, >> "DisplayMenuBar": true >> >> These two work some of the time (I'd say about 70%). The rest of the >> time, I get none or one of the toolbars. >> >> I'm not sure if the other settings hold 100% of the time, because I >> can't check every install, but the toolbars are obvious. >> > These two policies only have an effect the first time they are set and a > user can override them. That's probably why you are getting mixed results/ > > So is there anyway to do this? > > Situation: User already has older version of FF installed. I want to > update to latest and apply new settings (turn on Menu Bar and Bookmarks > Toolbar, Turn off proxy). > > If I uninstall the old version of FF, and remove the > %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox folder, then reinstall, copy the > policies.json to %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution folder will > these new settings take effect, or (because there is already a profile > created) are they ignored (it appears they are ignored, but I'm not sure if > that's expected or not). > It's not based on the profile, it's based on the policy setting for the first. So they will not be ignored if they have never had policy. > BTW, the line "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": false has the opposite >> affect. If I include this line, then Firefox never asks if it should be >> the default, and if I don't include it, it asks about 80% of the time. >> > What version of Firefox? Being able to set it to false was something that > wasn't working until Firefox 67/ESR 60.7 > > Note that even if you say false, we won't necessarily ask at every startup. > > I'm using FF 68/69. How can I force FF to check 100% of the time? > Checking some of the time isn't the same as "Always check if FF is your > default browser" which makes this setting inaccurate and disingenuous. > I did some more investigation, and we only don't ask on the very first run of the browser. So this should work. Mike
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