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prevent the installation of extensions

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We have several users that use Fire Fox, but we want to prevent them from installing extensions. How do we go about doing this.

We have several users that use Fire Fox, but we want to prevent them from installing extensions. How do we go about doing this.

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Maybe lock the pref xpinstall.enabled to false. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.