I am trying to get mozilla firefox into a deployable packagemsi which also sets some defaults like the homepage, turn off auto updates and set the proxy to a. Documentation for firefox for enterprise can now be found on sumo support. Ok, i have followed a ton of advice and instructions to get. Mar 05, 2016 the best thing is that each of those settings corresponds to a particular setting in about. It could be the manual editing of the file that is causing issues try and edit through firefox and then grab the file. Putting into place locked configuration settings knaff.
Deploying firefox in an enterprise environment mozilla mdn. Customizing firefox default preference files mikes musings. Sep 11, 2012 however, you can bypass that step by setting the default download save location with browser. Gecko, html, css, layout, dom, scripts, images, networking, etc. I am looking for a way to deploy a preconfigured firefox package or even an exisiting install to multiple machines using desktop central and have the about. You can follow the links below to browse all of the articles, or use the search box at the righthand side of each page. Firefox doesnt get enough love these days, but its still the most customizable browser around thanks the numerous options in about. How is firefox enterprise different from normal firefox. May 09, 2019 documentation for firefox for enterprise can now be found on sumo support. The encoding is a simple byteshifting with an offset of netscape 4 used a similar encoding, but with a of 7 instead.
It will list many of the accepted configuration options which you can modify using this file. Aug 29, 2012 recently ive seen a lot of questions around why defaultpref in an autoconfig file doesnt work to set the firefox hompage. For more information on what else can be configured in the g enter about. For help with download problems, see what to do if you cant download or save files for help with embedded media on web pages, see fix common audio and video issues for help changing the email program that firefox uses, see change the program used to open email links. This ensures that you go back or fall back on to your default server settings. Please tell me how i can save this value as 0 for my firefox. By default, firefox downloads go to the windows downloads folder, but you can change this by tweaking. However, one thing i think they could improve on is their default behavior for file downloads. Get firefox for windows, macos, linux, android and ios today. There are a huge number of settings avaible these can be viewed by entering about. This feature exists for mozilla and firefox, but not for thunderbird locked settings can be put into a g file in the c. Windows thread, problem with g file and getting settings to apply.
Nov 08, 2015 firefox has the ability to customise installations using a configuration file called g. Deploying firefox in an enterprise environment before. Skip or comment out the first line, then start setting your preferences. If you put files in the default profiles folder template, then the file with that content gets copied to all newly created profiles. After closing and reopening firefox it didnt show the a. Copy file g to the installation directory of the program that is requesting g. This document like many references throughout the web previously recommended encoding this file as rot. Setting the default firefox homepage with autoconfig mikes. Change what firefox does when you click on or download a. Recently ive seen a lot of questions around why defaultpref in an autoconfig file doesnt work to set the firefox hompage. This article will describe how firefox handles downloads for different types of files and how you can change that behavior.
Do you want to change the default for these prefs or set them on every browser start. Firefox default configuration firefox support forum. This feature exists for mozilla and firefox, but not for thunderbird. The multiprocess feature is available in windows versions of firefox installed on devices with touch screens. Furthermore, even though pocket has been disabled by g, this is being ignored by firefox 46 and newer. This website provides mozilla product documentation written by the user community. There is a lot of useful information about firefox hidden away behind the about. Firefox is created by a global nonprofit dedicated to putting individuals in control online. Is there a way to set multiple home pages via the mozilla.
Mar 15, 2012 sorry to ask probably a newbie question i am trying to set a default homepage for every firefox user and then allow them to change that if they like. Oct 22, 2014 welcome to the mozillazine knowledge base. The more redraws firefox completes, however, the longer a web page takes to load in the long run. Locked config settings archive of obsolete content mdn. Most of these tweaks add extra functionality to firefox and some of them tweak the performance of firefox. That means that after setting up everything, we can disable or even uninstall configuration mania if we dont want another addon on our browser and all the settings will remain. Furthermore, even though pocket has been disabled by mozilla. Deploying custom firefox configs in desktop central. Ok, i have followed a ton of advice and instructions to get a custom locked down config for firefox 3. With firefox 53, the ability to restore npapi plugin support will be removed completely. Jan 05, 2012 function setfirefoxpref default user, current user or all user settings within firefox s. Note that the default only works if the pref hasnt been user set i. It is suggested that anything you place in custom config files are also put in your server.
However, you can bypass that step by setting the default download save location with. Unlike ie which prompts you for the location to save downloads, by. This post should clear things up and show you how to make it work. Firefox, by default, has a 120000 value for the content. Oct 19, 2015 for more information on what else can be configured in the g enter about. Our requests dont differ greatly from others no automatic updates, no plugin checks, set default home page, no firefox sync etc. Apr 17, 2017 i am looking for a way to deploy a preconfigured firefox package or even an exisiting install to multiple machines using desktop central and have the about. In that case you need to reset the pref via the rightclick context menu to the default to give it the new value or remove the corresponding lines from the prefs. Issues with web page layout probably go here, while firefox user interface issues belong in the firefox product. I tried setting up a firefox profile that only opened links in the same tab using this config setting. Firefox has the ability to customise installations using a configuration file called mozilla.
I have read a lot of information on the web about different ways of doing it and the only way that has come close to helping me achieve this is the use of 3 files, mozilla. Here are 10 underthehood firefox tweaks you should. I am so disappointed that they have removed the default profile, this was our swiss army knife for customization and deployment. But for what ever reason, the profile always wants to default to. We have posted several interesting and useful about. Firefox how to configure proxy server settings for all users. This file sits in the firefox install directory, and each time firefox is loaded its checked for any custom configurations that have been added. Ive tried copying the g to several directories but with no change. If that doesnt work, you will have to copy g to your system directory. If that doesnt work, you will have to copy default. Besides the npapi plugin support being disabled by default, the key changes in firefox 52 are as follows. Shared components used by firefox and other mozilla software, including handling of web content. Firefox 52 is out with npapi plugins support disabled.
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