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Unable to give a complete path while setting config path for general.config.filename", as I want to lockdown configuration values differently for each user

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Giving a complete path while setting config path for "general.config.filename", as I want to lockdown configuration values differently for each user. I want to be able to do the below in all.js pref("general.config.filename", "%USERPROFILE%/mozilla.cfg"); but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a way of doing this. I greatly appreciate any approach of a way to be able to set the lock down config file path on a per user basis.

Best Regards Venkata

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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

Giving a complete path while setting config path for "general.config.filename", as I want to lockdown configuration values differently for each user. I want to be able to do the below in all.js pref("general.config.filename", "%USERPROFILE%/mozilla.cfg"); but it doesn't seem to work. Is there a way of doing this. I greatly appreciate any approach of a way to be able to set the lock down config file path on a per user basis. Best Regards Venkata == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

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cor-el
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The only way to do that is to install Firefox for each user individually and place the corresponding mozilla.cfg in each program folder.

See also http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/extensions/pref/autoconfig/src/prefcalls.js