Allow (temporary) changing of managed settings

[portiatrivisonno]

I'd like to be able to change the setting provided by the managed storage (policies/manifest) during runtime.

I'm often deploying a fresh install of Firefox with FoxyProxy for proxy management. I use policies to deploy the initial configuration but would like to allow the user (including myself) to change the settings (more precisely the active proxy) afterwards. This, however, seems currently not possible.

There was already a similar request in [1] using Chrome's "recommended policy". But I'm not aware of similar mechanism in Firefox. I could think of a setting "allow overwriting managed config", which, if enabled, allows changing the settings even in a "managed environment". (A quick glance at the code showed a lot of if (pref.managed) return; patterns.)

Personally, I don't care much whether the user's changes are permanent or only for the session; I guess the latter is probably preferred by most people.

Thanks in advance!

[1] #95 (comment)

[erosman]

As mentioned in #95 (comment)

That would conflict with #42 (comment)

The managed Enterprise Policy is set to give control to the admin and thus remove the control from the user.

It appears that the request is for a feature to apply a "default settings", rather than "managed storage/enterprise policy".

I have to look into the possibilities, if there is a popular demand for it.

[portiatrivisonno]

As mentioned in #95 (comment)

That would conflict with #42 (comment)
The managed Enterprise Policy is set to give control to the admin and thus remove the control from the user.

"conflict" might be a misleading word here. Given an option "allow overwriting managed config" (which is set in the policy), the admin can choose to give the user some control back or deny them all control.

It appears that the request is for a feature to apply a "default settings", rather than "managed storage/enterprise policy".

I have to look into the possibilities, if there is a popular demand for it.

For what its worth, uBlockOrigin offers something similar [1,2]. They allow the user to change settings during runtime but reset them on every launch. Maybe it's worth a look how they implemented that.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Deploying-uBlock-Origin
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Deploying-uBlock-Origin:-configuration

[erosman]

The feature can be added if there is a popular demand for it.