done that in just few months.
Timo Pietilä
On 16.1.2021 21.22, Paul Kosinski via Enterprise wrote:
"This deprecation [of Flash] has been coming for many years, so no one
should be surprised."
Has Adobe (or Mozilla) investigated the impact of the forcible shutdown
of Flash on those w
FF acting like that
in 7x series. Could there be a memory leak or somesuch in 8x that could
then affect next generation of esr?
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how secure browser password storage is. Probably quite
safe, I'm not aware of any malware that has cracked browser password
storage.
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nward compatibility I guess.
It is just annoying to see that whenever there is a roaming full top two
things that fill it are always Firefox and Thunderbird.
Maybe UE-V will save us from that nightmare.
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On 8.10.2020 20.28, Mike Kaply wrote:
Firefox ships with default settings and
u can dig any
history of how FF has been used from those files.
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On 8.10.2020 10.17, Wes Kocher wrote:
My understanding is that "Remote Settings" is the system Firefox is
using to synchronize and distribute preference changes and localized
messages between all of the va
What are these remote settings? They don't seem to have any impact on TB
or FF. Are these some kind of cached settings that for some reason are
in permanent storage?
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On 7.10.2020 17.52, Mike Kaply wrote:
Unfortunately I don't have a better answer. That file is us
can't write in that
directory just to see if that has any effect on FF/TB. If it doesn't I
consider making that change university-wide.
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On 6.10.2020 18.50, Mike Kaply wrote:
It's used for storing indexedDB data for internal pages. There is a bug
for
when I restart FF/TB. When it is rebuild it is at first very
small.
If that is not needed why is it "permanent"?
How can I get rid of it? It eats up a lot of roaming space.
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Il giorno gio 1 ott 2020 alle ore 09:35 Timo Pietilä
mailto:timo.piet...@helsinki.fi>> ha scritto:
> Of course if your computers are used by multiple people then there are
> bigger problems.
Yes, and they don't always login (i.e.
refusing to use profile.
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There is actually even older bug talking about same issue mentioned in
one of the comments of that bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423617
That's 13 years old (closed as wontfix)
Seems like this has been issue in FF forever.
Timo Pietilä
On 28.8.2020 21.14, Mike Kaply
vious reasons),
so if I have something to add to this I report it after testing.
Timo Pietilä
On 26.8.2020 7.24, Timo Pietilä wrote:
...aand I just realized this is old bug, I'm still using 68esr, not 78esr.
Anyway sandbox to 5 fixes it.
Timo Pietilä
On 25.8.2020 7.30, Timo Pietilä wrote:
...aand I just realized this is old bug, I'm still using 68esr, not 78esr.
Anyway sandbox to 5 fixes it.
Timo Pietilä
On 25.8.2020 7.30, Timo Pietilä wrote:
I had that same problem and to me sandbox.content to 5 fixed the
problem. Required FF restart after changing that setting befo
I had that same problem and to me sandbox.content to 5 fixed the
problem. Required FF restart after changing that setting before it
worked, but now I'm getting sounds from videos.
Same problems: connection to remote machine with RDP -> no sound from FF
videos played at remote end
Somehow it is good to hear that this is a bug and not a feature. :-)
Timo Pietilä
On 17.8.2020 16.29, Mike Kaply wrote:
We saw the bug and I am still investigating. We have automated tests for
this, so I'm unsure what could have happened.
Mike
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 1:00 AM Martin
They work (well, many of them work), but needs to be adapt to TB. So
support for them is there. I guess that is why they are mentioned.
Timo Pietilä
On 20.7.2020 12.00, Osdoba, Sascha wrote:
Hi,
but why should they mention "Additional Enterprise policies" if there is no way
to
Adobe drops support for flash at the end of this year (flash EOL
31.12.2020), after that there are no security patches, so if you have
some internal websites that use flash you should hurry up to replace
them with more modern techs.
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On 12.6.2020 1.03, Mike Kaply wrote:
On Thu
json can be frustratingly sensitive to errors. For that reason I have
used enterprise policy generator -addon. Saves many headaches from
banging your head in the wall.
Timo Pietilä
On 28.5.2020 19.26, Eddie Rowe wrote:
Thanks so much! I didn’t realize the settings were case sensitive
Just a hunch.
Check dns over https -setting on that machine. Maybe it is enabled on
that and disabled on others.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
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On 10.3.2020 14.36, Osdoba, Sascha wrote:
Hi Will,
i checked it yesterdays on the users device and in
We use policies.json not GPO, but I can confirm that SPNEGO is the one
that sets the network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris preference.
Timo Pietilä
On 4.2.2020 16.11, Julien Cristau wrote:
This setting is handled under the Authentication policy:
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates
to use newer version before you installed
68.4.1?
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On 21.1.2020 15.20, William Spratt wrote:
Hi all,
I’ve got a bit of a weird one in our environment.
I have an estate of about 500 users. ESR 68.4.1 was installed last week
across the estate. About half a dozen of them have been l
t, but any
"setasdefaultappuser" -type switches wont work anymore. Not easily
anyway. At least I don't know any easy method of changing that.
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to 68 and
next profile-breaking version, and next and so on (60 could do it, why
not 68), even if the direction is just one way. As you said it is only
N-2 away from current version. But what is done is done, too late to fix
things now.
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you can't use autoconfig for that.
Pretty much everything else in basic pref-setting autoconfig still works.
I would add the MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES=1 with GPO in users registry well
before updating so you avoid extra profile mess.
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On 21.11.2019 15.36, Dimas Streich (Informàtica T
admin-rights for her
computer and she had let her daughter to use that computer with her
admin rights: result: over 200 different malwares and way over 2000
infected files. "my computer is a bit slow". Reinstall.
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I would reinstall ESET first. I just fixed a computer that had antivirus
blocking spooler service from starting just by reinstalling that said
antivirus program. Those things go haywire sometimes and start blocking
things they are not supposed to block.
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On 30.10.2019 15.27
.msi .exe-wrapper is for those that use AD inbuild ability to use group
policies to distribute software. Other than that I don't see any benefit.
Timo Pietilä
On 25.10.2019 13.12, William Spratt wrote:
Thank for the quick response, Timo and John,
I've had .msi installers in the
using helper.exe (or ARP that uses helper.exe instead of msiexec /x).
So for all the evils not leaving any trace of it being .msi is the
lesser evil IMO.
Timo Pietilä
On 25.10.2019 13.24, Gage, John wrote:
I'm with you on that, Will - I don't feel that this should be "expected behavior
We use here file version of the firefox.exe as detection rule.
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On 25.10.2019 12.49, Gage, John wrote:
Just adding confirmation to Timo's comments that using the MSI GUID will not
work.
-
Will, I use SCCM heavily, and for my Firefox ESR Application's "Detection
AFAIK that is by design. That msi is exe-wrapper and after install there
is no trace that it was installed using .msi. You can't uninstall it
using msiexec /x {productcode} either.
You need to treat it like if it were installed using .exe.
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On 25.10.2019 11.52, William S
/customcssforfx
but I would like to have this as mozilla-supported option.
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t not be possible anymore for 68 esr, but I hope this is in next
major esr.
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On 8.10.2019 18.05, Mike Kaply wrote:
Unfortunately because of how early this is needed in starting, registry
entry (group policy) or environment variable are the only options.
Mike
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019
nched).
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On 2.10.2019 12.12, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
Mandi! Klaus Hartnegg
In chel di` si favelave...
You just learned the hard way that not following rules causes problems.
Now instead of fixing the underlying bug you want to break another rule.
Guess what? That will cause more pro
browser.
Timo Pietilä
On 2.10.2019 16.36, Mike Kaply wrote:
It's going to be a GPO on Windows.
Mike
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:16 AM Marco Gaiarin <mailto:g...@sv.lnf.it>> wrote:
Mandi! Mike Kaply
In chel di` si favelave...
> Because of how early it is in st
How do I prevent "What happened to my live bookmarks" -page from being
shown after upgrade from 60 to 68 esr? I don't see option for that in
policies.json.
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Saves quite a few headaches.
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On 20.9.2019 18.58, Eddie Rowe wrote:
I noticed that
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig indicates
that the autoconfig.js
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customiz
How about policy instead of removing? There might be cases where people
actually want the new behavior about profiles.
Timo Pietilä
On 13.9.2019 23.46, Mike Kaply wrote:
You can get more information about this feature here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/understanding-depth-profile
n nice job.
Timo Pietilä
On 6.9.2019 10.40, Timo Pietilä wrote:
If you can distribute FF without msi do so. That msi is a exe-wrapper
and as such will create all kinds difficulties that pure .exe or proper
.msi doesn't.
Timo Pietilä
On 6.9.2019 9.29, Alessio Gennari via Enterprise wrote:
Upgrade from 60 to 68 did create another odd profile that no-one uses.
Maybe that is a cause to this behavior. I need to investigate further
when I'm home.
Timo Pietilä
On 5.9.2019 16.21, Mike Kaply wrote:
No remote is what usually creates this problem.
Do you have more than one pr
If you can distribute FF without msi do so. That msi is a exe-wrapper
and as such will create all kinds difficulties that pure .exe or proper
.msi doesn't.
Timo Pietilä
On 6.9.2019 9.29, Alessio Gennari via Enterprise wrote:
Hello,
where ca I find msi package and GPO definition for thes
Windows. I have not tweaked how FF starts in any way. Should I add
-no-remote in open with -commands in registry to avoid that behavior?
Timo Pietilä
On 4.9.2019 18.34, Mike Kaply wrote:
Do you have Firefox started with -no-remote?
what platform are you on?
Mike
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:00
In case you need to downgrade for for example add-on compatibility or a
bug that Mozilla has in new version but not in older (not unheard of).
Sometimes security comes next in corporate environments.
Timo Pietilä
On 4.9.2019 18.36, Mike Kaply wrote:
Why do you want downgrade protection
Oh, that's 70 in normal channel, not 70esr. Looks obvious now that I
think of it. Too busy to think straight I guess. I need coffee.
Timo Pietilä
On 4.9.2019 16.47, Fjoerfoks wrote:
70 will become 68.2.
See also: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
Wim
Op wo 4 sep. 20
So approved means implemented. Got that.
Good, now I can properly start planning for upgrading to 68esr here.
Timo Pietilä
On 4.9.2019 16.44, Ryan VanderMeulen wrote:
Per comment 5 in the bug, it was included in 68.1esr.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:43 AM Timo Pietilä <mailto:timo.p
1, or am I reading that incorrectly?
I have to verify by testing when I have time.
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On 4.9.2019 10.42, Timo Pietilä wrote:
I don't see fix for the homepage reset at upgrade from 60 to 68 to what
is set in policies.json instead of keeping users homepages. Is it fixed
yet. If not ma
ks to open in new tab in
already open FF?
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I don't see fix for the homepage reset at upgrade from 60 to 68 to what
is set in policies.json instead of keeping users homepages. Is it fixed
yet. If not make sure that is fixed before forcing to upgrade because
that is serious showstopper bug.
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On 3.9.2019 17.16,
Tiny warning about active setup: it is not officially supported windows
feature, so it can disappear at some point without warning. Unlikely
soon (too many programs use it) but possible, especially now that W10
changes features in every major upgrades.
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On 21.8.2019 15:51, Gruhm
On 19.8.2019 18.23, James M. Pulver wrote:
On 8/19/19 6:46 AM, Timo Pietilä wrote:
On 18.8.2019 18.58, Paul Kosinski via Enterprise wrote:
As a long-time Firefox user, I went to ESR because I prefer stability to
new features, and I especially don't like gratuitous changes to the
e I have been
using FF before it was FF.
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same preference)
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On 12.8.2019 18.58, Mike Kaply wrote:
Can you please report the CCK2 issue here:
https://github.com/mkaply/cck2wizard/issues
That shouldn't happen. I need the pref names to debug.
Mike
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 7:00 AM Valtori OTTK Elinkaaripal
fifth option: reset each start to default but allow change while using.
IE. pref, defaultpref and lockpref as in autoconfig -method.
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On 12.8.2019 17.52, marius.ta...@orange.com wrote:
For me it’s fine as it is currently
Would it be feasible to have all the 4 possibilities ? (set
Thanks. Good to know that there was a bug and not something weird going
on in our end.
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On 2.8.2019 19.41, Mike Kaply wrote:
You're right, we do have code for this. This was requested so that a one
time reset would be done before setting the default.
I'm removing it.
ed to that
new profile for each install.
Anyway it is a bug somewhere as it clearly does something it shouldn't.
Timo Pietilä
On 1.8.2019 17.19, Mike Kaply wrote:
That policy changes the default values for the homepage and the browser
startup pref.
It doesn't change any homepages that
On 29.7.2019 20.06, Mike Kaply wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:51 AM Timo Pietilä <mailto:timo.piet...@helsinki.fi>> wrote:
I don't quite understand that logic, doesn't disabling app update using
json -file create exactly same problem? Or is the problem in
On 29.7.2019 19.59, Mike Kaply wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:21 AM Timo Pietilä <mailto:timo.piet...@helsinki.fi>> wrote:
Hello.
Couple of things I have noticed and have not been able to figure out
how
to fix are that when I upgrade from ff60esr to ff68esr i
It looks like policies.json doesn't have options for those.
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you try that.
Note that I haven't tested if updates come thru with 68 even with policy
set, I just trust it does what it is said to do.
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On 24.7.2019 18.57, JUSTIAA2 wrote:
Good Afternoon,
I’ve been using the CCK2 tool to configure firefox. Before Fv68 I was
able to stop au
I don't quite understand that logic, doesn't disabling app update using
json -file create exactly same problem? Or is the problem in
non-corporate users disabling the update check using preferences (and
json -file being pain in the to get correctly done too hard for lusers
to mak
gestartpage "homepage"
URL "what I set it to be"
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On 24.7.2019 20.04, Mike Kaply wrote:
Definitely not.
Can you check about:policies and see what it says?
Mike
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 11:58 AM JUSTIAA2 <mailto:justi...@ucia
easily, which .exe does not. (edit
ini-entries, add or remove files and so on).
Timo Pietilä
On 21.8.2017 16:53, Mikko Järvinen wrote:
Hi
Unfortunately there seems to be some misunderstanding from Mozilla's
part about msi packages (and Windows Installer) and why many customers
have for
efore that process finishes (like closing FF, then immediately
closing the computer).
If that is the case then obviously there isn't any crash report.
(really weird quoting in this message, I try to fix that)
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On 23.5.2017 17:43, Osdoba, Sascha wrote:
Dear Mike,
i change
.
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On 20.10.2016 15:27, Kaply Consulting wrote:
As indicated by others, it means there is a mistake in the AutoConfig files.
On Windows, there is a bug that error messages don't display when there
is a problem in the AutoConfig file.
I've created a post to give ideas on ho
for sure. Or I could use my android phone with google drive for windows
binary. That check in that page is just pointless.
(added Enterprise@mozilla.org for discussion).
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That feature should be disabled for that page. It shouldn't matter if I
run my own OS that runs only my own programs when I want to download a
ESR for later deployment.
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On 24.8.2016 17:30, Urbanski Tomasz wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to use a MSI installer package for enterprise deployment
of Firefox ESR?
Does it make sense? Does anybody do it?
Yes, and it's easy with right tools.
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I think you need to elaborate a bit. What message? How does it manifest
itself?
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On 23.8.2016 22:05, Marsha West wrote:
I started getting this message just yesterday and haven't been able to
find a solution. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks in
ad
My understanding about distribution directory is that it is used only
when firefox version changes or new profile is made, so that would be
the reason to try with new profile (in case you are wondering why try that)
Timo Pietilä
On 19.8.2016 18:14, Kaply Consulting wrote:
Can you try
On 18.8.2016 15:11, Thomas Besser wrote:
Am 18.08.2016 um 14:07 schrieb Timo Pietilä:
This should still be valid guide for enterprise firefox deployment:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Enterprise_deployment
Thanks, I know that site (and a lot more).
But there is _no_
On 18.8.2016 15:00, Timo Pietilä wrote:
On 18.8.2016 14:40, Thomas Besser wrote:
Am 18.08.2016 um 13:22 schrieb Timo Pietilä:
On 18.8.2016 12:29, Thomas Besser wrote:
Am 17.08.2016 um 17:37 schrieb Kaply Consulting:
The most common way to do this is to put the search plugin in the
On 18.8.2016 14:40, Thomas Besser wrote:
Am 18.08.2016 um 13:22 schrieb Timo Pietilä:
On 18.8.2016 12:29, Thomas Besser wrote:
Am 17.08.2016 um 17:37 schrieb Kaply Consulting:
The most common way to do this is to put the search plugin in the
distribution\searchplugins\common directory.
I
. Probably with 45esr it's gone?
It should not be gone. That's used to distribute lightning add-on to users.
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CCK2 gets my vote for that. FF own system (if there is one) pretty much
sucks for deployment, so you are forced to work around it and CCK2 makes
that easy peasy.
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On 22.7.2016 15:07, Dipen Narendra Kumar wrote:
As far as I am aware, it is not possible for Firefox to make use of
maybe just clueless about windows and
have given order to make msi regardless.
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do that. Should not be hard to move to msi from existing .exe installer
if someone there would just use couple of weeks to learn basic msi stuff
like how to make proper upgrades and patching.
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e any prefs in FF using that (like disable autoupdate)?
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fully agree with. Making msi is easy. If Moz would just use some
effort to do the infrastructure bits for installation templates etc.
then rest would not be any harder than making that .exe installer. It
just requires change that they are not willing to make.
Timo Pi
52".
If you don't know if it goes away or not at ESR 45.0.1 then your
"foreseeable future" would be rather short.
So some sort of length of the timeframe we are talking about would be nice.
We probably move to Chrome anyway before next major ESR after 45 comes
distribute FF and TB for University with
about 50k students and around 7000 staff and have been working here for
about 15 years now. Not one case of malicious add-on at that time.
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Reset profile??
I was not aware of that "feature" at all. When was that introduced, and
what does that do exactly?
I might need to add that to my config-file too.
Timo Pietilä
On 29.1.2016 17:55, martin.gustafs...@hm.com wrote:
I use this to turn that off in our config.
// Dis
These might help you finding a way to set that for users:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Master_password
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager#Troubleshooting
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On 28.1.2016 16:21, Timo Pietilä wrote:
I think that doesn't have a preference. I just set master password in m
I think that doesn't have a preference. I just set master password in my
own Firefox and nothing changed in prefs.
Must be something deeper in firefox system.
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On 28.1.2016 16:15, stefan.sonnenberg-carst...@nrwbank.de wrote:
I'm using about:config.
Mit freundlichen Grü
What about network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-non-fqdn
That is false as default.
I have no idea if that changes anything, but it could.
Timo Pietilä
On 28.1.2016 11:32, K P SANAL wrote:
Yup, both are already "true". verified it again!
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies
work/school, then you tend to use it at home too.
By corporate support I'm talking about certificates, lack of
msi-installer and that sort of things.
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On 25.1.2016 18:01, Wolf, Daniel wrote:
There is no purpose to user control if it's used to infect people's brow
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