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Set Safari Homepage
Description
This profile changes the Safari Homepage for the currently logged in user.
This recipe is was tested on 10.13.2 with Safari 11.0.2
Ingredients
- FW Admin
Directions
- Create a New Desktop Fileset and select the Profile option
- Name the profile in the General payload and fill out the Custom Settings payload with the following information where the value can be whatever site you wish:
Preference Domain : com.apple.safari
Key: HomePage
Type: String
Value: https://www.filewave.com
- Close the Profile Editor
- Double click on the newly created profile → select the settings tab → uncheck the box for "Users" under installation and check the box for "System" under installation.
- Then deploy the profile out to your selected macOS devices.
Notes
Some additional options that may require consideration:
Additional keys
Key: LastSafariVersionWithWelcomePage-v2 Type: String Value: 9.0 (Description: Show Safari Welcome Page to new users. String set as last version of Safari welcome page was shown; may require changing with newer versions of Safari) Key: NewWindowBehavior Type: Number Value: 0 (Description: Policy for new window contents. 0 = show homepage\, 1 = show empty page\, 2 = show same page as current window/tab\, 3 = show bookmarks) Key: NewTabBehavior Type: Number Value: 0 (Description: Policy for new tab contents. 0 = show homepage\, 1 = show empty page\, 2 = show same page as current window/tab\, 3 = show bookmarks)