Remote policies.json (AutoConfig like)

[Dimas-sc]

For now, it's possible to distribute a policies.json file to all the PCs with GPO, but any change to policies.json file is very slow to distribute. With AutoConfig we could have a remote firefox.js that was processed by all Firefox instances. It'd be nice to have a similar option with policies, or allowing setting policies.json via Autoconfig.

[mkaply]

Unfortunately right now, policies need to load very early, so we can’t just fetch a policies.json remotely the way AutoConfig does because it runs too late for many settings.

We are exploring dynamic policies, and once that’s in place, a remote-fetch model (with proper signing/caching) could be possible.