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J.B. Nicholson-Owens

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Jan 5, 2010, 10:44:50 PM1/5/10
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Does anyone have any pointers to getting Firefox to work with a policy
control system -- pushing down settings from a central server to
machines within an organization?

Thanks.

David McRitchie

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Jan 6, 2010, 12:35:58 AM1/6/10
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No experience.

Policy items will not show up in about:config

Did you try searching on kiosk policy Firefox

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J.B. Nicholson-Owens

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Jan 6, 2010, 7:27:12 AM1/6/10
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On 01/05/2010 11:35 PM, David McRitchie wrote:
> No experience.
>
> Policy items will not show up in about:config

Perhaps I don't understand what you're getting at here but I'm not
expecting anything new to show up in about:config.

I would like to control Firefox's configuration via OpenDirectory (MCX)
for my MacOS users, and Active Directory (through group policy) for my
Microsoft Windows users, and whatever the equivalents are in the free
software world for my users on free software OSes.

I'd like to do this without specifying that Firefox should grab a config
file hosted on a webserver because I already have to use these
mechanisms to configure many other applications (including web browsers)
and it would be most convenient to do all app configuration for an OS
from one place--the same place the other apps look for configuration
information.

> Did you try searching on kiosk policy Firefox

No, but that's a good idea, thanks!

J.B. Nicholson-Owens

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Jan 10, 2010, 11:42:23 PM1/10/10
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I wrote:
> I would like to control Firefox's configuration via OpenDirectory (MCX)
> for my MacOS users, and Active Directory (through group policy) for my
> Microsoft Windows users, and whatever the equivalents are in the free
> software world for my users on free software OSes.

From what I can tell, Firefox has no code to allow for this with any
policy system. Unfortunately Firefox can only be controlled by
flat-file deployment locally with the Firefox installation or with an
additional flat file distributed via HTTP.

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Jan 11, 2010, 2:24:45 AM1/11/10
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In <news:0KGdnYfNJ-mlmtnW...@mozilla.org>,
"J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <j...@forestfield.org> wrote:

For MS Windows, see <http://www.frontmotion.com/FMFirefoxCE/index.htm>.

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J.B. Nicholson-Owens

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Jan 14, 2010, 10:52:57 PM1/14/10
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»Q« wrote:
> For MS Windows, see <http://www.frontmotion.com/FMFirefoxCE/index.htm>.

Thanks! That's very much like what I'm looking for.

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