Firefox Mandatory Preferences

  1. Important links

Overall Process

  1. We want to create mandatory preferences for Firefox
  2. As an example we are setting
    1. The Firefox homepage to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxMandatoryPreferences

    2. The proxy settings to: Auto-detect proxy settings for this network

  3. More settings can be found About:config description of the Mozilla

Knowledgebase

Determine settings

general.config.obscure_value

13

general.config.filename

firefox.cfg

//
lockPref("network.proxy.type", 4);
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxMandatoryPreferences");

NOTE: The two slashes at the first line of the file are important otherwise Firefox won't understand your config file and refuse to start up


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FirefoxMandatoryPreferences (last edited 2011-04-08 15:28:04 by D9784B24)