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I work in a large school district and have research all day and haven't been able to figure out how to fix first run issues.

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I work in a large school district and have spent several days trying to figure out how to handle Mozilla first run issues and several default profile settings.

I have tried everything from downloading group policy admix templates, mesick.cfg and autoconfig.js file, also created an override.ini and copied it into the Mozilla folder and C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\browser folder.

Nothing seems to work for a the new first time user. Mozilla always seem to ask everyuser to run the import browser wizard. This is to confusing for the younger students.. Isn't there a simple way to handle this issue.

I work in a large school district and have spent several days trying to figure out how to handle Mozilla first run issues and several default profile settings. I have tried everything from downloading group policy admix templates, mesick.cfg and autoconfig.js file, also created an override.ini and copied it into the Mozilla folder and C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\browser folder. Nothing seems to work for a the new first time user. Mozilla always seem to ask everyuser to run the import browser wizard. This is to confusing for the younger students.. Isn't there a simple way to handle this issue.

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Wow, amazing why such an awesome software program has such shitty administrative features and functions. Why doesn't anyone from a support team design a preset-up GUI that can create a decent first run and default browser functions. Having to design a .cfg file is totally ridiculous.. especially when Mozilla support seems to scatter the options of information all over the web but really doesn't give straight forward information anywhere. Scrapping this and going to Chrome.

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cor-el
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override.ini should still work. 

[XRE]
EnableProfileMigrator=false
usadavidh
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Tried override.ini the very first thing. Does not work at all.

Shadow110
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Is this sorta the issue your having ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34069224/firefoxdriver-always-starting-on-firstrun-page-breaking-all-test-scripts Be aware page is over a year old.

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Wow, amazing why such an awesome software program has such shitty administrative features and functions. Why doesn't anyone from a support team design a preset-up GUI that can create a decent first run and default browser functions. Having to design a .cfg file is totally ridiculous.. especially when Mozilla support seems to scatter the options of information all over the web but really doesn't give straight forward information anywhere. Scrapping this and going to Chrome.