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How to protect add-on manager?

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I have some security-themed extensions (like BlockSite). How do you prevent someone from going into the add-on manager and simply disabling or uninstalling an extension in order to bypass it (like preventing my kids from disabling BlockSite in order to bypass its functions)? Using FF 4.01.

I have some security-themed extensions (like BlockSite). How do you prevent someone from going into the add-on manager and simply disabling or uninstalling an extension in order to bypass it (like preventing my kids from disabling BlockSite in order to bypass its functions)? Using FF 4.01.

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You could use another extension, Public Fox, to password protect certain parts of Firefox including the add-ons manager - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/public-fox/

As with using any extensions used to protect Firefox, they can easily be bypassed by creating a new profile.