Did you use fully qualified URLs for your bookmarks?

http://example.com

I modified to use FQDN URL but still no luck.

Can you go to about:config and create a string pref called browser.policies.loglevel and set it to "debug"

Then the JS console (Ctrl+Shift+J) should tell us what is going wrong...

GPOParser.jsm:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE WindowsGPOParser.jsm:44 GPOParser.jsm:{

 "Bookmarks": [
   {
     "Title": "Homefront",
     "URL": "https://homefront.wsgc.com",
     "Favicon": "",
     "Placement": "menu",
     "Folder": "WSI_WEB"
   }
 ]

} WindowsGPOParser.jsm:45 GPOParser.jsm:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE WindowsGPOParser.jsm:44 GPOParser.jsm:{

 "Bookmarks": [
   {
     "Title": "Google",
     "URL": "https://www.google.com/",
     "Favicon": "",
     "Placement": "toolbar",
     "Folder": ""
   }
 ],
 "Homepage": {
   "URL": "www.google.com",
   "Locked": 0
 }

} WindowsGPOParser.jsm:45 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @[object Object]@ for type array PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 PoliciesValidator.jsm:in array, checking @[object Object]@ for type object PoliciesValidator.jsm:60 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @[object Object]@ for type object PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @Google@ for type string PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @https://www.google.com/@ for type URL PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @@ for type URLorEmpty PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @@ for type string PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @[object Object]@ for type object PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 PoliciesValidator.jsm:checking @www.google.com@ for type URL PoliciesValidator.jsm:41 Enterprise Policies:Invalid parameters specified for Homepage. EnterprisePolicies.js:138 BookmarksPolicies.jsm:"Bookmark to add: https://www.google.com/" BookmarksPolicies.jsm:160 Error: Error(s) encountered during statement execution: no such table: moz_hosts Stack trace: handleCompletion@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm:807:25

 Sqlite.jsm:645:52

BookmarksPolicies.jsm:Error: Error(s) encountered during statement execution: no such table: moz_hosts Stack trace: handleCompletion@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm:807:25

 Console.jsm:503

Key event not available on some keyboard layouts: key=“i” modifiers=“accel,alt,shift” id=“key_browserToolbox” browser.xul GET XHR http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 16ms] GET XHR https://aus5.mozilla.org/update/3/GMP/60.5.0/20190124141046/WINNT_x86_64-msvc-x64/en-US/esr/Windows_NT%2010.0.0.0.15063.1563%20(x64)/default/default/update.xml [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 249ms] POST http://ocsp.digicert.com/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 23ms]

any suggestions?

Is it possible that this profile was used on an older version of Firefox and then used on a new version of Firefox?

I test out policy_templates_v1.3 and policy_templates_v1.4 on Firefox 60.2.0.esr (64 bit) but same result.

Sorry, I mean an older version of Firefox, not the template.

This error:

Error: Error(s) encountered during statement execution: no such table: moz_hosts Stack trace: handleCompletion@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm:807:25

usually happens when I profile has been used on older and newer versions of Firefox.

Can you try this on a fresh Firefox profile?

I ran the command on Firefox and it restarted Firefox. However I still didn't see the bookmarks.

Which command?

My recommendation is to use about:profiles to create a new profile. Then switch to that profile and see if the bookmarks apply.

Thanks for the suggestion. Recreate profile seems to fix the problem. How can I fix the issue in a mass rollout?

Sorry, I don't have a good answer here. This shouldn't be a problem in a mass rollout because this only happens if you upgrade and then downgrade.

We are introducing downgrade protection in Firefox 68 to prevent this in the future.