Locking down Firefox Connection settings

Due to Google removing their support for IE8, I'm being forced down the road to look at an alternative Browser to support my users when connecting to Google tools.
Using IE I have locked down users to enforce them to use our cloud based web security using a PAC file and now need to use the same with firefox.
I've edited the registry with the PAC file but now want to effectivly grey out the options on the Connections setting page
I've read a few guides and tried them but they are all for older version of FF.
Can anyone out there point me in the right direction?

If you really want to prevent users from changing settings then the only way to achieve this is via a mozilla.cfg file.
It is not really that difficult.<br />
You need to create to plain text files.
Place a file local-settings.js in the defaults\pref folder where you also find the file channel-prefs.js to specify using mozilla.cfg.
<pre><nowiki>pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); // use this to disable the byte-shift
</nowiki></pre>
The mozilla.cfg file to be located in the main Firefox program folder should contain these lines:
<pre><nowiki>// mzila.cfg should start with a comment line
lockPref("network.proxy.type", 2);
</nowiki></pre>
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/network.proxy.type
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences

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