How to disable pages shown after installing Firefox ESR 78

[Tiago Marques Delboni]

Hi!

After installing Firefox ESR 78 in our enviroment, in the first run, it displays a message box titled "Important News" stating that "This installation of Firefox has a new profile. I does not share bookmarks, passwords and so on..." .

Moreover, it opens two tabs:

1. Changes to your Firefox profile

2. Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

How can I get rid of all of them?

Using "OverrideFirstRunPage" police only replaces the "Welcome to Firefox" default page, shown the second time Firefox is executed.

Thanks!

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Tiago Marques Delboni
Gerência de Aplicações e Suporte a Clientes / GTI
(31) 2108-7700

[Mike Kaply]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 1:44 PM Tiago Marques Delboni <tiago....@almg.gov.br> wrote:

Hi!

After installing Firefox ESR 78 in our enviroment, in the first run, it displays a message box titled "Important News" stating that "This installation of Firefox has a new profile. I does not share bookmarks, passwords and so on..." .

This is caused by another Firefox install being in a different directory so Firefox uses a new profile.

If you are on Windows, you can set the policy LegacyProfiles and it will use the same profile.

 

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#legacyprofiles

Moreover, it opens two tabs:

1. Changes to your Firefox profile

My guess is this is related to the first one. I would need to see what it looks like.

2. Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

For this notice, you can either turn off Firefox Accounts via policy or set the preference:

datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyBypassNotification

to true using the preferences policy

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#preferences

 

How can I get rid of all of them?

Using "OverrideFirstRunPage" police only replaces the "Welcome to Firefox" default page, shown the second time Firefox is executed.

Thanks!

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Tiago Marques Delboni
Gerência de Aplicações e Suporte a Clientes / GTI
(31) 2108-7700

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[Tiago Marques Delboni]

Hi Mike

Before FF 78esr 64-bit we had FF 60esr 64-bit installed in "Program Files (x86)", where once was FF 52esr 32-bit. Now we're fixing this mess uninstalling FF60esr and installing FF 78esr 64-bit in "Program Files" with a fresh profile (LegacyProfiles off).

1. Please check the screens here: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zGOxsMh6HnwoXLna6AIskViu_TAnmAVR?usp=sharing

2. Thanks!


Citando Mike Kaply <mka...@mozilla.com>:

[Mike Kaply]

The only way to prevent this message is to either set LegacyProfiles to true to use the same profile or to delete the old profiles.

You can completely delete C:\Users\USERNAME \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla, C:\Users\USERNAME \AppData\Local\Mozilla, and C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Mozilla if you are not going to reuse the old profiles.

Mike