[oi-dev] Firefox site-wide preferences

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

That file can indeed specify prefs in plain text, no rot13 needed. But it
seems it only accepts the  pref("abc","xyz") keyword, none of locked_pref,
lockedPref, default_pref or defaultPref, etc.pp.

But the pref() form indeed does override a user_pref in a user-specific
prefs.js elsewhere.

So site-wide defaults indeed work in /etc/firefox/defaults/pref/*.js files.

On 12/09/2023 16:24, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> Interestingly, I found out by an accidental typo that the file is indeed
> ingested by our current firefox, so now I've just to find out what the
> contents should look like to work. Maybe it needs this silly rot13 "crypto"
> thing...
> Thanks for your suggestion, I hope now that this isn't needed.
>
> On 11/09/2023 23:41, Geoffrey Weiss wrote:
>>
>> Do you want to try to apply the attached patch for firefox 117 to see if this
>> enables this missing feature with the OpenIndiana port of firefox?
>>
>> I don't have an example of a set of files to put in /etc to test this.
>>
>> This patch makes an OS assumption that does not make it a good candidate for
>> upstream.
>>
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>>> Around firefox 112, the changeset below enabled site wide preferences
>>> from /etc/firefox/defaults/pref/*.js, but that was only activated
>>> for Linux (so-called "security", as usual...). Can someone activate
>>> that patch also for the openindiana build, too ? That would be helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d25171536bbb>
>>
>> --
>> Geoff Weiss, Computer Systems Manager                      phone: 410-455-3959
>> CSEEIT - UMBC                                                fax: 410-455-3969
>
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