Firefox settings via GPO

Question

I need to change a setting in firefox about:config over 900 or so odd systems. I will only accept a group policy setting to change this. We already have work arounds.

This is the setting I need to change.

network.dns.disableIPv6 = true

Without disabling IPv6 in windows or installing any software, can I change this via group police?

Answer 1

You cannot manage firefox with group policy. You have to use FrontMotion Firefox Community Edition which had Administrative Templates to manage all the settings in about:config.

The only solution with Group Policy with a regular installation of firefox would be to deploy a script to copy an edited "firefox.js" with the line "pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);" to "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref".

Answer 2

Even though this was resolve I'd like to mention I created a PowerShell script to do just this as well, works with any Firefox preference and many of the config files.

http://code.remyservices.net/powershell-firefoxpref/