Just to follow up on this, the bug that was causing the welcome tiles to appear even when you overrode the first run page or turned off sync has been fixed.
Unfortunately there was a bug in how I did UserMessaging piece, so I didn't document it for this release, but if you turn off any UserMessaging in this release, it will get rid of the box (due to a typo). If you have a need to flip prefs and not use policy to get rid of these tiles, it's: "trailhead.firstrun.branches", "nofirstrun-empty" "browser.aboutwelcome.enabled", false Mike On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM Eddie Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: > My review of the options showed that some options are only available with > the policies.json file and preferences file so I opted to use a Group > Policy Preference to deploy policies and Firefox preferences when we moved > to ESR. This process also seems to be a little bit easier to quickly > adjust a setting/preference without having to setup a test OU, edit a test > GPO, etc. > > > > *From:* Enterprise <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Harkins, > Steve via Enterprise > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:40 AM > *To:* Maxime Accadia <[email protected]>; Kasper, > Ryan V. <[email protected]> > *Cc:* enterprise <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen > in ESR 78 > > > > Maxime, > > > > Thanks. Is that from the internal configuration of Firefox? We are > preparing to use GPOs for Firefox, but we’re not quite there yet. We > already have GPOs for IE and Edge, and plan to add some for Firefox, > Chrome, and Chromium Edge. > > > > > > Regards, > > Steve > > > > *From:* Maxime Accadia <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 07, 2020 4:21 AM > *To:* Kasper, Ryan V. <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Philipp Madersbacher <[email protected]>; Harkins, > Steve <[email protected]>; enterprise <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of > Welcome screen in ESR 78 > > > > I tried both policies (UserMessaging and OverrideFirstRunPage). The first > run page is indeed overidden but the "Welcome to Firefox" of Firefox 78 > also appears on new tabs. > > > > Regards, > > > > Maxime > ------------------------------ > > *De: *"enterprise" <[email protected]> > *À: *"Philipp Madersbacher" <[email protected]>, "Harkins, > Steve" <[email protected]> > *Cc: *"enterprise" <[email protected]> > *Envoyé: *Lundi 6 Juillet 2020 18:37:05 > *Objet: *Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of Welcome screen in > ESR 78 > > > > I agree – also > https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#usermessaging > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_mozilla_policy-2Dtemplates_blob_master_README.md-23usermessaging&d=DwMGaQ&c=2WwxlqHD_9GeHFEUsOHZXg&r=a0pF-r4VjZCyzB4zxbRDcONPyw-KRRoDiBPd4lDRky8&m=U_bCHXmVOFlray9MhdwpVeRQO72zf_1RKyHFD8A3fPU&s=79yGNmiRGusd498TuyfsuSkaMGDK8fHNoZFqMhRXS-I&e=> > > > > Steve – you can use the admx GPO templates available here > https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_mozilla_policy-2Dtemplates&d=DwMGaQ&c=2WwxlqHD_9GeHFEUsOHZXg&r=a0pF-r4VjZCyzB4zxbRDcONPyw-KRRoDiBPd4lDRky8&m=U_bCHXmVOFlray9MhdwpVeRQO72zf_1RKyHFD8A3fPU&s=KQSzIpg9jzKAZdi1HvBkagfKilHt9zHYNcvPrWLe4Ps&e=> > or create a policies.json file under %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla > Firefox\distribution (you will need to create the distribution folder, too)… > > > > Thank you, > > Ryan V. Kasper > > Leidos - Software Packaging > > > > *From:* Enterprise <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Philipp > Madersbacher > *Sent:* Monday, July 6, 2020 9:33 AM > *To:* Harkins, Steve <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* EXTERNAL: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] How can we get rid of > Welcome screen in ESR 78 > > > > Hi, I assume this can be controlled through the following > preference/policy: > > > https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#overridefirstrunpage > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_mozilla_policy-2Dtemplates_blob_master_README.md-23overridefirstrunpage&d=DwMGaQ&c=2WwxlqHD_9GeHFEUsOHZXg&r=a0pF-r4VjZCyzB4zxbRDcONPyw-KRRoDiBPd4lDRky8&m=U_bCHXmVOFlray9MhdwpVeRQO72zf_1RKyHFD8A3fPU&s=pc-so70AaIrvuP2Y4b4Abk44CpDfPSCmVK7Qsu15dHI&e=> > > > > Best regards, > > philipp > > > > Am Mo., 6. Juli 2020 um 15:34 Uhr schrieb Harkins, Steve via Enterprise < > [email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > Our Electronic Software Distribution team is packaging ESR 78.01, and in > testing noticed this Welcome screen. How can we keep this from appearing > on users’ computers? 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