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Help Needed with Firefox Scripting

  • October 10, 2014
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We are implementing Zscaler which is a proxy service that my company is going to roll out. On the PC side they have it all configured and working. I'm running into an issue on Firefox. What I been told by our Systems Engineer that I have to edit the prefs.js file that is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles. Below are the 2 entries that I need to add. Does anyone know how I can script this so it can add the following 2 entries in pref.js. I did a search here and didnt find much so any help would be greatly apprecaited. Tell you what if you are attending JNUC 2014 I'll buy you a nice cold beer or two or "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"

user_pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes”, 0 );

user_pref("extensions.enabledScopes", 15);

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    • lkrasno
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    • October 10, 2014

    I love beer! or two

    Have you checked out http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.12/2412MacEnterprise/index.html ?

    Is this for new or existing users / deployments ? Do you care about their existing profiles or bookmarks?

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    • Look
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    • October 10, 2014

    The profile name varies from machine to machine so you need to find the file then echo to the end of it the two extra lines (>> vs >) try the following.

    PREFFILE=$(find $HOME/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles -name prefs.js)
echo $PREFFILE
echo "user_pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 0 );" >> "$PREFFILE"
echo "user_pref("extensions.enabledScopes", 15);" >> "$PREFFILE"

    EDIT: There is a space after the 0 but not after the 15 is this intentional? May or may not matter, although looking at the other entries in the file most don't have a space after the number so the first line may be wrong.

    daz_wallace
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    • daz_wallace
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    • October 10, 2014

    If you are pre-FireFox rollout (or just pre-update rollout), consider using the CCK 2 tool from Mike Kaply (http://mike.kaply.com). It's a free add on to set things like user and system preferences for Firefox.

    I've knocked up a blog on it's general use that might be helpful
    http://www.amsys.co.uk/2014/blog/locking-firefox-cck-2/
    [/Shameless Plug]

    Hope they help!

    Darren

    RobertHammen
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    • RobertHammen
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    • October 10, 2014

    Yep, either use CCK or, worst-case scenario, a LaunchAgent/script combo to run as the user when they log in, adding the line to preferences, if it can be determined programatically.


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