On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Any ideas how to lock preference settings with ff3?
>
> We used to do this as explained in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lock_Prefs . 
> With the firefox3 from 5.2 this no longer works :-(
>
> It seems the .js file defining the name of the .cfg now has to be placed in 
> /usr/lib/xulrunner-<version>/greprefs instead of /usr/lib/firefox-<version> .
>
> But I can't find the right place for the .cfg. It's no longer 
> /usr/lib/firefox-<version>, and no, it's not /usr/lib/xulrunner-<version> 
> either.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Any suggestions for a stable browser that's not only usable on a single 
> user's personal system?

According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427927 the 
config loading is just broken in 3.0betaN but should be fixed in rc1 (and 
I hope the real release etc).

Since TUV happened to ship beta5 we are stuck until they choose to update 
it to something newer.  Since mozilla-3.0 is due to be released *today* 
(at 17:00 UCT according to http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/), I'd 
expect that TUV will be releasing new versions really soon...

Like you we can't update to 3.0 until we have a version which works with 
the autoconfig stuff.

BTW for earlier versions we do it by just adding new .js files 
(all-damtp.js) into the various directories which define the config file 
to load:

$ find /usr/lib/firefox* -name '*all*.js'
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/greprefs/all.js
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/greprefs/all-damtp.js
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/greprefs/xpinstall.js
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/greprefs/all-redhat.js
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/defaults/pref/all-damtp.js
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/defaults/pref/all-redhat.js

where our all-damtp.js contains:

// Set the config file to load
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); // for MCD .cfg files
pref("general.config.filename", "damtp.cfg");

(and that also sets the default browser home page from 
browserconfig.properties)

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Jon Peatfield,  Computer Officer,  DAMTP,  University of Cambridge
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