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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jan 2018
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OS: Windows
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Type: Bug



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Master Preferences not working for Chrome x64

Reported by miroslav...@tieto.com, Dec 18 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install Chrome 64bit MSi
2. Replace C:\Program Files %\Google\Chrome\Application\master _preferences file with modified one

What is the expected behavior?
Master_preferences should delegate settings to all users profiles and create file Preferences

What went wrong?
Changes (e.g default web page) are not working because user profile file Preferences was not created

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 62.0.3202.94_x64  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 6.3
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 28.0 r0

Master Preferences for Chrome x86 is working fine
 
Labels: Needs-Milestone
Cc: kkaluri@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
miroslav.kapsa@ Could you please help us with the sample master preference file and its intended behavior for our further triage.

Thank You...
We just recently moved our Windows 2008 R2 Citrix XenDesktop hosts to Chrome 64 bit. We are running Chrome 63.0.3239.108. The master_preferences file is not working and it was working before we switched from the 32 bit version. The master_preferences file is listed below, but note that we have tried a dozen different configurations of the master_preferences and they have all been equally ignored.

 {
  "homepage": "http://center.insdra.com", 
  "homepage_is_newtabpage": false, 
  "browser": { 
    "show_home_button": true 
  }, 
  "bookmark_bar": { 
    "show_on_all_tabs": true 
  }, 
  "distribution": { 
    "skip_first_run_ui": true, 
    "import_search_engine": true, 
    "import_history": false, 
    "create_all_shortcuts": true, 
    "do_not_launch_chrome": true, 
    "make_chrome_default": false 
  }, 
  "first_run_tabs": [ 
	"http://center.insdra.com/"
  ] 
}

Comment 4 by grt@chromium.org, Jan 10 2018

Cc: grt@chromium.org
Hi. Could you confirm the exact location of the file? Just to be sure, the file only influences new Chrome users (those that do not already have a "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data" directory).
Hi, sorry for the late answer, but we were still investigating it and we find that we had syntax error in our master_preferences file, so now I can say it's working for us. 



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Comment 6 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jan 10 2018

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "kkaluri@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

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Comment 7 by grt@chromium.org, Jan 10 2018

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for letting us know. I'll close this out. Cheers.

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