Most Requested Enterprise Features

[Mike Kaply]

So I'm trying to assemble a list of things we might still be missing for "table stakes" for Firefox in the enterprise.

I feel like we've done pretty good so far, but I want to see if we're missing anything I don't know about. Here's my short list:

1. Forced update of Firefox.

2. Disabling clearing history.

3. Much better documentation.

4. A better update story on macOS.

Does anyone else have any thoughts about things we're missing?

Thanks

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Mike Kaply

Technical Partner Lead

Mozilla Corporation

[Streich Colomeda, Dimas]

For me, I'm waiting for these:

• Remote policies.json. We talked about that some time ago (08/04/2021 email subject "Remote policies.json"). Now, it's possible to distribute a policies.json file to all the PCs with GPO, but any change to policies.json file is very slow to distribute. With AutoConfig we could have a remote firefox.js that was processed by all Firefox instances.
• Legacy Browser Support. You developed this add-on, but it doesn't cover our needs because it forces all the other pages to be opened in Firefox. It'd be nice to force opening some pages with IE/Edge, but don't disable IE/Edge for other pages.
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183602

Thx,

Dimas Streich Colomeda
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[Robert Marcano]

On 3/31/25 11:36 AM, 'Mike Kaply' via enter...@mozilla.org wrote:
> So I'm trying to assemble a list of things we might still be missing for
> "table stakes" for Firefox in the enterprise.
>
> I feel like we've done pretty good so far, but I want to see if we're
> missing anything I don't know about. Here's my short list:
>
> 1. Forced update of Firefox.
> 2. Disabling clearing history.
> 3. Much better documentation.
> 4. A better update story on macOS.
>
> Does anyone else have any thoughts about things we're missing?

I don't think this is highly requested feature, but is something I would
like to have. Firefox has dom.push.serverURL preference. Implement one
for intranet domains, and another to set the domains allowed.

dom.push.serverURL is a global value, you can run a local push server,
for your internal needs, but if you use internet public services, then
you push server needs to be exposed to the public, with the extra
maintenance an internet facing server needs.

I write apps that need to run if a customer company internet goes down,
so having a local push server is nice, to not lose internal push
notifications, and some of them even are small businesses behind carrier
grade NATs, so even if with a local push server, there is no way to
expose it to the internet, so if you use a local push server you lose
the public internet apps push notifications.

>
> Thanks
>
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> Mike Kaply
> Technical Partner Lead
> Mozilla Corporation
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[Thane K. Sherrington]

Here's one I'd like - the ability to make the domain highlighting in the URL in the address bar more obvious.  During our phishing tests, we've found that most people can't see the subtle highlighting Firefox uses.  It needs to be more bold, or a brighter colour.  It would need to be user configurable because some people are colour blind.  This would really make detecting phishing/fake sites easier.

In case any one is wondering, I'm referring to this highlighting in the address bar.

I like the rest of the suggestions.

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[Philipp Madersbacher]

Hi Mike, one major pain point for us with windows roaming profiles is that firefox still commonly puts loads of data in the storage-section of the roaming profile (might argue the same for gmp-plugins, minidumps, etc) instead of %localappdata%, which causes issues with size limits on the server and slower logons for users. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395705 and others - any improvements in this regard would be very welcome!

Best regards

Philipp

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[Osdoba, Sascha]

I support this request to strictly keep out caches from the roaming part of the profile

 

additionality I would like to have something like a tracing why SSO is sometimes not working for internal website

(sometimes doesn’t work with an existing FF profile, if you create a new FF profile it works again)

 

Sascha

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