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Bug 1815926

Summary: firefox etc pref files ignored
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Leon Fauster <leonfauster>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 8.1CC: jkoten, jprajzne, tpelka
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Description Leon Fauster 2020-03-22 19:20:52 UTC
Description of problem:

# rpm -q firefox -l |grep pref |head -1 
/etc/firefox/pref

Custom js files under /etc/firefox/pref doesn't get applied. 

Copying into /usr/lib64/firefox/defaults/preferences/ works!

Test file: 
# cat /usr/lib64/firefox/defaults/preferences/all-org.js
pref("webgl.disabled", true, locked);


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q firefox 
firefox-68.5.0-2.el8_1.x86_64

How reproducible:
Copy test file to /etc/firefox/pref/org.js
 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy test file to /etc/firefox/pref/org.js
2. Exec firefox
3. check via about:config uri

Actual results:
no config change

Expected results:
config change

Additional info:
Also /etc/mozilla/firefox/pref/ doesn't help!
 
(inspired by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8614662&action=diff
)

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2020-03-23 08:32:40 UTC
We're going to fix that in next FF ESR release.

Comment 5 Jiri Prajzner 2020-07-13 12:23:28 UTC
works now

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 04:04:50 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (firefox bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:4812