2027006 - Pass remote policies from Felt to Firefox

Status: NEW

(Firefox Enterprise :: Client, task, P1)

Description

[Janika Neuberger [:janika]]

In https://github.com/mozilla/enterprise-firefox/pull/585#pullrequestreview-4021870568 we shutdown Firefox when the initial remote policies fetch on startup fails. This is a poor user experience as we'd quit Firefox right after the user completed the authentication flow in felt.

Let's fetch the first set of remote policies from Felt and pass it to Firefox alongside with all other configurations. If we miss something required, we can block the access to Firefox Enterprise and signal an error message to the user.

Comment 1

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/enterprise-firefox] Bug 2027006: Fetch remote policies on Felt UI before launching Firefox (#790)

Comment 2

[Florian Dieminger [:fiji]]

Can we wait on landing this? The initial fetch would only fail it the console is misconfigured and this should not happen. We want to make the policies fetch send the posture and we'll have different information (e.g. extensions) depending from where we fetch the policies. It also can then happen that we log out the user on the first fetch from Firefox because they have a disallowed extension in combination with their OS.