Deploying Chrome and Firefox with a default home page

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JRW

• September 15, 2020 16:13

Hello,

I'm in need of a little help with this one. I'm trying to use PDQ to deploy both Firefox and Chrome in our environment with a set default home page, but we'd also like to allow users to change the home page later if they'd like.

I understand that active directory group policy is probably the best way to achieve this goal, but for reasons I can't understand management pretty regularly makes the decision to not use active directory when they probably should.

I see that the prebuilt Firefox package from the repository already has the "copy policies.json" step in there. Can I just modify the .json file for the Firefox piece? What about Chrome?

Any guidance on how to deploy Chrome and Firefox using PDQ with a set home page would be greatly appreciated.

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  Mike P.

  • September 16, 2020 22:57

  I found this for Firefox:

  https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#homepage

  You can set the home page without locking it.

  You'll just create your policies.json that configures the settings from that page that you want to pre-configure, then copy it to "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\distribution\" with a "File Copy" step in your package.

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