Override admin's forced home page
I first tried to do what has been suggested in the article: "How to override System admin's forced home page?" Namely editing the registry key for software\policies\firefox I also tried to do what I found concerning about:config and user.js and prefs.js. Whatever I did it didn't help. If I close the browser and start again, the home page is set to: "www.companyname.com"
There must be another policy source firefox is forced to read from. Does anybody have any idea how I can switch off this policy?
Thanks a lot. Mersue
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Open the browser using a short cut to whatever you want.
Does the browser.startup.homepage pref shows as locked on the about:config page or can you modify this pref?
A mozilla.cfg file in the Firefox program folder can be used to lock prefs or specify new (default) values.
A local-settings.js file needs to be placed in the "defaults\pref" folder where also the channel-prefs.js file is located to specify using mozilla.cfg.
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
These functions can be used in the mozilla.cfg file:
defaultPref(); // set new default value pref(); // set pref, allow changes in current session lockPref(); // lock pref, disallow changes
See Configuration:
I did both. I have overwritten this value also in the registry. If I restart firefox, I see "browser.startup.homepage" overwritten with "www.company-name.com". BTW: Firefox has been installed after admin installed the system. Admin cannot have overwritten the firefox installation. There must be another policy which firefox ready during start-up, which at the end over-writes the home page value. Hope you guys have a hint.