Another Firefox 3 question

[iSteve]

Hello,

 

I'm just setting up FFox 3 on a room of iMacs (10.5.4). I have edited the global prefs.js file with our various settings to force homepages / proxy settings etc using "user_pref". This works fine, but I would like to use "lockPref" so that students cannot remove proxy settings. If i chage user_pref for lockPref, the entire line of code is ignored so students are left with a default mozilla home page and no proxy at all. If i change it back to user_pref, it all works fine?! Is lockPref the correct syntax for this, or am I missing something?

 

Also, we use the system proxy plugin so that FFox picks up the system proxy from Mac OS X. However, when FFox launches, it insists on a compatibility check of the plugin which is a pain. I installed a second plugin that disables compatibility checking but this will not run properly when I send the app out to our iMacs (says the file is malformed). Is there another way I can set FFox to NOT check compatibility of installed plugins / addons?

 

Thanks again!

[Geoff]

The file must be encoded, and renamed. There's an online encoder you can use here:

 

Automatic Mozilla Configurator

 

Once you've encoded it, you need to rename it to mozilla.cfg and put it in your Firefox program folder.

 

Finally, in the greprefs folder there’s a file called all.js. Add the following line at the end of it:

 

pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");

[iSteve]

Thanks! I had a look at the mozilla.cfg generator thing yesterday, but I think my original file had bad line endings. It works now.

[twomb]

I'm trying to accomplish locked preferences for Firefox as well. I've found various web sites detailing how to do this, but no matter what I try, I'm getting "Configuration Error: Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator."

 

I have a perl script which is "encrypting" the file with rot13, and I'm placing it in /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/grepprefs/

 

Any idea where I'm going wrong?

 

Thanks.

[iSteve]

In greprefs, all.js, you add the line

 

pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");

 

as Geoff said. You then make a text file with your config options/locks in. This goes in Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS after you have changed it to rot13 format and called it mozilla.cfg.

 

The first time I tried this, I had the same error message. I then remade the text file in SubEthaEdit and changed the line endings to Windows line endings, saved it out as a .txt, then used the online configurator mentioned above to get the .cfg file.

 

Hope that makes sense!

[slochewie]

Has anyone actually gotten this to work in Firefox 3?

 

I used Automatic Mozilla Configurator to byteshift my mozilla.txt and create a mozilla.cfg file.

 

I have this working on my systems for Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox 2.18 and have so for years now. Ever since Firefox 1.0x I believe.

 

It ignores the file in Firefox 3.04

 

I've tried putting

 

pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");

 

at the end of

 

/opt/sfw/lib/firefox3/defaults/pref/firefox.js

 

and

 

/opt/sfw/lib/firefox3/greprefs/all.js

 

with no luck.