The update check may be disabled in an administrative policy by setting
the DisableFormHistory key under policies to true.
Rationale
To protect privacy and sensitive data, Firefox provides the ability to configure the program so that data entered into forms is not saved. This mitigates the risk of a website gleaning private information from prefilled information.
firefox_cfg="policies.json"
# Default to /etc/firefox/policies to use for remediations.
firefox_dirs="/etc/firefox/policies"
permissions=644
declare __REMEDIATE_PYTHON
if [ -x /usr/bin/python ]; then
__REMEDIATE_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python
elif [ -x /usr/bin/python3 ]; then
__REMEDIATE_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
elif [ -x /usr/bin/python2 ]; then
__REMEDIATE_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2
else
echo "Python required and no python interpreter found."
exit 1
fi
declare __FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION
if find /usr -iname firefox\* -type f -print | grep -qe "firefox.sh$\|firefox-bin$"; then
__FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION=$(dirname "$(find /usr -iname firefox\* -type f -print | grep -e "firefox.sh$\|firefox-bin$" | head -n1)")/distribution
fi
# If there's a policies file in the distribution directory already, modify it.
if [ -f ${__FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION}/policies.json ]; then
firefox_dirs="${__FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION}"
fi
# Check the possible Firefox install directories
for firefox_dir in ${firefox_dirs}; do
if ! [ -d "${firefox_dir}" ]; then
mkdir -p "${firefox_dir}"
chmod 755 "${firefox_dir}"
fi
# Make sure the Firefox .cfg file exists and has the appropriate permissions
if ! [ -f "${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}" ] ; then
echo "{" > "${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}"
echo " \"policies\": {" >> "${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}"
echo " }" >> "${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}"
echo "}" >> "${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}"
chmod ${permissions} "${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}"
fi
# If the key exists, change it. Otherwise, add it to the config_file.
if [ -x ${__REMEDIATE_PYTHON} ]; then
echo """
import json
_file=open('${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}', 'r')
_tree=json.load(_file)
_file.close()
_tree['policies']['DisableFormHistory'] = True
_file=open('${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}', 'w')
json.dump(_tree, _file, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
_file.close()
""" | ${__REMEDIATE_PYTHON}
chmod ${permissions} "${firefox_dir}/${firefox_cfg}"
fi
done