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Firefox: we do have some settings LOCKED, this needs to be solved differently via about:config like all the other ones #193

Closed star-buck closed 5 years ago

star-buck commented 5 years ago

seen on rolling, not sure if it affects Debian as well: Screenshot_20190422_190044

NuLogicSystems commented 5 years ago

I'll have to look at it again, but there are some settings that upstream firefox removed the ability to change via autoconfig citing their redistribution policies. This is part of the reason cc2 no longer works, and why adding the enterprise policies.json was needed.

NuLogicSystems commented 5 years ago

I just looked and we did not lock these, they must have been locked by upstream Firefox. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig#w_functions-of-autoconfig

star-buck commented 5 years ago

Very unlikely. Why would they lock the startpage? They are rather locked by us somehow shipping something in a way that those are no longer editable.

NuLogicSystems commented 5 years ago

I don't see the startpage being locked, only the overide and welcome urls.

NuLogicSystems commented 5 years ago

I do know that Firefox 57 and above no longer allow the startpage to be changed: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-default-home-page-has-links-to-features

star-buck commented 5 years ago

Yeah, its weird, the startpage can be changed, but not the newtab page. Lets leave it there, im just seeing google.com startpage using 2-8% cpu time just displaying it again. Im just glad its not preloaded, otherwise we would need to decide to switch to a new startpage or explicitly add about:newtab as startpage url under "Home" settings.

NuLogicSystems commented 5 years ago

Yes, there was an announcement about not being able to change the new tab page as well. I just can't find it again atm.