Firefox Favorites

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Firefox Favorites

Post#1 by rh102801 » 31 Aug 2015, 13:57

I am trying to find out if there is a way to manage a list of favorites (bookmarks)for Firefox without having them all automatically open when I boot the system.
I am using remote management and would like to be able to add or remove sites as needed but not necessarily have those sites as a homepage which opens a tab for each site every time I reboot.
This would be extremely helpful as by default we have all internet traffic blocked from the kiosks but HR wants them to be able to provide access to certain sites.
I am currently adding them to the homepage= field in the config file using remote management but obviously I do not want all these tabs to open at the same time.

Any ideas or suggestions?

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Re: Firefox Favorites

Post#2 by fanthom » 31 Aug 2015, 14:21

You are lucky :) This feature (and many others) will be available in next kiosk release:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/news.html#150830

Please wait about a week and it will go public.

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Re: Firefox Favorites

Post#3 by rh102801 » 31 Aug 2015, 14:30

Awesome... thanks a lot.
On another note, are existing kiosks upgradable or would I have to redeploy with a new image for the new version?

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Re: Firefox Favorites

Post#4 by fanthom » 01 Sep 2015, 11:04

Kiosk can upgrade itself only when you sign it up to the 'automatic updates' service:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/automatic-updates.html
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