Locking down firefox for primary school

Hi All, I'm using Firefox on 24 PC's in a primary school computer Lab, I have had reports of students installing extensions and plugins that i wish to stop, also i've ha… (ebele ya kotanga)

Hi All,

I'm using Firefox on 24 PC's in a primary school computer Lab, I have had reports of students installing extensions and plugins that i wish to stop, also i've had issues with students not signing out of their email and other students gaining access.

Im looking for solutions for the following and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction -

1. Disabling the installations of extensions and plugins. 2. Clearing browsing history/logging out of any accounts. 3. Locking settings so students can't change settings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Adam

Asked by adam183 basanza 5 eleki

Last reply by James basanza 4 eleki

How to update Firefox ESR 115.14.0 to 128.1.0?

I'm a newbie using Debian and Deb 12 ships with Firefox ESR and I've decided to stick with it instead of the regular release, 'cause it breaks some extensions I have. How… (ebele ya kotanga)

I'm a newbie using Debian and Deb 12 ships with Firefox ESR and I've decided to stick with it instead of the regular release, 'cause it breaks some extensions I have. However, I want to upgrade to the latest ESR version, how do I do it? I tried going to (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr), but the file for linux 64 bit is a .tar.bz2 file, which I have no idea how to compile.

Asked by spandanjit.05 basanza 4 eleki

Last reply by cor-el basanza 4 eleki

Firefox ESR/Duo: Not reporting minor version in user agent

We use ESR due to its stability and long term security updates, and we use Duo as our SSO/IDP. We have Duo set to deny login when the browser is more than 6 mo out of da… (ebele ya kotanga)

We use ESR due to its stability and long term security updates, and we use Duo as our SSO/IDP.

We have Duo set to deny login when the browser is more than 6 mo out of date, but due to the way FF reports only the main version number via the user agent Duo is unable to determine that FF ESR is actually up to date and thinks that it's too old and my users are being denied login or getting an erroneous message about needing to update their browser.

Is there a way to set FF to report it's whole version to Duo? We would prefer not to have to "outlaw" FF in our prod environment if at all possible.

Asked by Jarrod Coombes basanza 4 eleki

Last reply by Mike Kaply basanza 4 eleki

Firefox 128 ESR-next Releases not reading firefox.cfg

My company has been using the same customized autoconfig.js without issue since last year's FF 115 esr release on our Ubuntu servers. cat /opt/firefox-115.13.0esr/defau… (ebele ya kotanga)

My company has been using the same customized autoconfig.js without issue since last year's FF 115 esr release on our Ubuntu servers.

cat /opt/firefox-115.13.0esr/defaults/pref/autoconfig.js pref("browser.tabs.inTitlebar", 0); pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg"); pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); pref("general.config.sandbox_enabled", false); pref("pdfjs.annotationEditorMode", 1);

Now we are testing the 128 esr next releases with the same config and getting the failed to read the configuration file. please contact your system administrator error

cat /opt/firefox-128.1.0esr/defaults/pref/autoconfig.js pref("browser.tabs.inTitlebar", 0); pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg"); pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); pref("general.config.sandbox_enabled", false); pref("pdfjs.annotationEditorMode", 1);

If remove pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); or set it to 1, the error goes away, but our actual firefox.cfg does not get read and are configs are not present at all.

Asked by Ruben Gomez basanza 5 eleki

Last reply by cor-el basanza 4 eleki

An Extension was added via GPO, and we would like to enable the two settings / make the extension removable

Hi supporting teams / volunteers, A Microsoft Purview extension was added via GPO previously, and we would like to enable the two settings (indicated with red box), may … (ebele ya kotanga)

Hi supporting teams / volunteers,

A Microsoft Purview extension was added via GPO previously, and we would like to enable the two settings (indicated with red box), may I know if anyone might have clues on that please? Also, would like to also check if we could remove the extension from users' end, since it said "can't be removed". Many thanks.

Best regards, Vincent

Asked by vyau1018 basanza 5 eleki

Last reply by Mike Kaply basanza 5 eleki

Require device sign in to fill and mange passwords (mozilla.cfg)

Hi all I like to enforce the following setting "Require device sign in to fill and mange passwords" in the mozilla.cfg but I couldn't find the setting in about:config. … (ebele ya kotanga)

Hi all

I like to enforce the following setting "Require device sign in to fill and mange passwords" in the mozilla.cfg but I couldn't find the setting in about:config.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Ogami

Asked by Ogami Itto (Gobi85) basanza 5 eleki

Last reply by Mike Kaply basanza 5 eleki