1635825 - Separate startpage locking from homepage locking

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Enterprise Policies, defect, P3)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Currently because of the way browser.startup.page is set, if you lock the homepage so users can't change it, it also means they can't turn restore previous session on/off.

In policy, we should make it possible to lock the homepage but still allow the user to turn restore previous session on/off.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Bug 1635825 - Don't lock Startpage preference by default. r?mconley

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

So the route I went is to introduce a new parameter, homepage-locked if you need to explicitly lock the homepage and prevent the user from selecting restore session.

I do not provide a way to lock restore session anymore (I think that's OK).

So this should give folks the old behavior if they want it (always start with a homepage no matter what), and the new behavior which is to not lock startpage.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f3ac98c968db
Don't lock Startpage preference by default. r=mconley

Comment 5

[Cristian Brindusan [:cbrindusan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f3ac98c968db