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Can you block access to local filesystem drives from Firefox? We don't want users to be able to access C: drive from firefox.

Can you block access to local filesystem drives from Firefox? We don't want users to be able to access C: drive from firefox.

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I may be wrong, but I believe this was a feature that was discussed to be added to Firefox policies for. However, I don't think it's been added yet.

There were some old solutions that used to work, but they don't currently.

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Are you referring to reading or writing to the root of C:\ ? If so wouldn't it be best to adjust the permissions of "Users" to meet your needs to the root?

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We are working towards that for sure but just looking for short term solution to fill one of the gaps.

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Thank you for the information. Wish they had a better admx template to apply.

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Unfortunately, the WebsiteFilter policy currently cannot allow/block file:// URLs, only http:// and https://

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#websitefilter

There is a bug pending that doesn't have a high enough priority to expect it in the next few versions:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450309

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Good to see that it's in Dev and moving forward.