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Firefox informs me that my browser is being managed by my organization.

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As I belong to no organization, I find this disturbing. Some of the settings being "managed" for me are not as I want them. How do I get access to them? FWIW. I am using Firefox in Linux Mint. Thank you for your help.

As I belong to no organization, I find this disturbing. Some of the settings being "managed" for me are not as I want them. How do I get access to them? FWIW. I am using Firefox in Linux Mint. Thank you for your help.

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Take a look at this similar issue. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/see-active-policies-firefox-enterprise

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md On Linux, the file (policies.json) goes into firefox/distribution, where firefox is the installation directory for firefox, which varies by distribution or you can specify system-wide policy by placing the file in /etc/firefox/policies.

Modified by jonzn4SUSE

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The Linux tarballs from www.mozilla.org/firefox/all has updates from Mozilla as long as the Firefox folder has read/write permissions for the user. A easy way is to have Firefox folder in Home.

The Firefox packages from Mint are updated by them and not Mozilla.

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jon: What I got from the link was that under Linux group policies can be set only with policies.json. Unfortunately, that file contains only one item. It shuts off autoupdate. What am I missing?

James: Unfortunately, I am a total newbie at Linux and at fiddling with software at this level in general. I know what a tarball is, but I don't know what to do with it in this situation. Can you instruct me?

Many thanks to you both for trying to help.

Owen

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That file is the reason you are getting the message that your browser is being managed by your organization.

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Terry said

That file is the reason you are getting the message that your browser is being managed by your organization.

Not by any organization. In Linux Mint the Update Manager is responsible for all software updates for the package builds.

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owen58191 said

jon: What I got from the link was that under Linux group policies can be set only with policies.json. Unfortunately, that file contains only one item. It shuts off autoupdate. What am I missing? Owen

As was stated before, your distro handles updates like my distro version on openSUSE which is why I run both. see screenshot I suggest you just run both so that your data is not in just one browser. You can use sync to get your data in the Mozilla version of Firefox. There really is no issue here, just that mint handles updates for the distro version. I think they need to change the language used in the message.

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On their site, they also mention the need to change the verbiage.

In Linux Mint the Update Manager is responsible for all software updates, and applying updates requires root privileges.

“Your browser is being managed by your organization” might look a bit scary but all it means is that Firefox was told to not worry about updating itself.

In the About dialog, “Updates disabled by your system administrator” has the same meaning.

We’ll work with Mozilla on this, first to rephrase this, and hopefully later this year to be able to handle Firefox updates from within Firefox.

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If you're feeling adventurous, rename the file to policies.json_old, restart Firefox and see if you can manually update it.