Preconfigure Firefox 4
Hello,
until yet, we preconfigured FF in defaults/pref/firefox.js for our users.
Today I downloaded FireFox 4. But this version doesn't have the firefox.js any more. If I place my old file at the location where it was bevore and most of the options are recognized and working. But some are not.
I set/unset this options and watched the changes in prefs.js in my user profile. The name of the options/parameters are still the same. But they doesn't seem to be used from the firefox.js any more.
Examples are: pref("app.update.enabled", false); pref("browser.search.update", false); pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies", true);
What is the new way to preconfigure FireFox 4 for all users?
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See:
defaultPref(); // set new default value pref(); // set pref, but allow changes lockPref(); // lock pref, disallow changes
Modified by cor-el
But ... I would like just to inialize, not to lock. What way to do this ?
Thank for your help.
Ludovic.
Finaly I just change "lockPref" by "pref" ! And it works fine.
@Ludovic: Where did you do the change? In "about:config"? The options you can set there are profile based only.
What is needed is a ***simple*** way to (p)reconfigure a Firefox 4 installation as in:
- Run Firefox-Installer
- Copy settings-file somewhere
- have your default settings as a base for all profiles created
???
Modified by cherdeg
BTW.:
A file "firefox.js" put into "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref" does NOT do this job. The entries made there are:
- pref("network.proxy.share_proxy_settings", true); // use the same proxy settings for all protocols
- pref("network.proxy.autoconfig_url"; "http://server/proxy.pac");
- pref("network.proxy.type"; 2);
Modified by cherdeg
On Linux Firefox 4, go to main install on firefox/defaults and create a dir called preferences (there is one dir called pref, but ignore it). Create the file prefs.js inside this dir
cd firefox/defaults; mkdir preferences; cd preferences; vi prefs.js;
Add your preferences like:
pref("app.update.enabled", false);
Restart firefox
Modified by palombo