The problem is that Firefox doesn't use the system proxy settings.
Is there another solution? I found an extension that allows using
the system
settings but it's hardly an official extension if there is one. I
saw some
programmer notes from someone about Mozilla but don't see evidence
of that
though her comments were back in 2006....
What are other people using to help manage proxy settings?
If you have the above then you can use the command line tools
through ARD to
manage both....
I have adapted this from http://mit.edu/~firefox/www/maintainers/autoconfig.html
. The following setup will enable you to create a Firefox package
that will enable centrally managed preferences. Once you make these
changes you can copy the modified Firefox app to the computers you
want to manage.
To be able to centrally manage preferences for Firefox you need to do
the following 3 steps.
1. you need to change /Applications/Firefox/Contents/MacOS/greprefs/
all.js to have the following lines. The Firefox config files are
parsed top down with the last change winning if there is a conflict.
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); // takes out ROT-13 encoding
on config file
pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg"); //points to the config
file that you create
2. you need to make a file in /Applications/Firefox/Contents/MacOS/
firefox.cfg which should contain the following:
//setting prefs to read from web server
try {
lockPref("autoadmin.global_config_url","http://fqdn.for.your.web.server/path
to/autoconf.js"); // points to config file on web server
lockPref("autoadmin.append_emailaddr",false); //doesn't append the
username of the user. Change to true if you want per user prefs.
} catch(e) {
displayError("lockedPref", e);
}
3. Next you need to create the config file on your server. In my
case I called it autoconf.js which looks like:
// Auto Config prefs for Firefox
// save at fqdn.for.your.web.server/path to/autoconf.js
Misc:
The above are some examples from my config for Firefox. You can
manage any preference you want. To get the preference name and the
current setting in the URL field for Firefox enter "about:config" no
quotes and press return.
I have been using this for about 8 months not without any issues. If
you need to change any setting in Firefox you just edit the config
file on your web server.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any problems.
- Barrett Hartman
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