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How to block extension using policies.json

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Jonathan
Jonathan

Hi, I planned to block my users from installing extensions/add-ons. I found an article that might be the answer (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1308646). I tried to create a simple policy (below), but somehow it does not work (I can still install any add-on/extension). What is wrong with my script? I'm using Firefox ESR 78.11.0 (64-bit) by the way.

My "policies.json" looks like this:

{ 

"policies": {
  "ExtensionSettings": {
    "*": {
      "blocked_install_message": "Blocked!",
      "install_sources": ["https://addons.mozilla.org/"],
      "installation_mode": "blocked"
    }
  }
}

Sincerely, Jonathan

Hi, I planned to block my users from installing extensions/add-ons. I found an article that might be the answer (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1308646). I tried to create a simple policy (below), but somehow it does not work (I can still install any add-on/extension). What is wrong with my script? I'm using Firefox ESR 78.11.0 (64-bit) by the way. My "policies.json" looks like this: { "policies": { "ExtensionSettings": { "*": { "blocked_install_message": "Blocked!", "install_sources": ["https://addons.mozilla.org/"], "installation_mode": "blocked" } } } Sincerely, Jonathan

Izabrano rješenje

See:

Note that your curly brackets do not match as you need to add one more '}'. You should see an error on about:policies#errors. 

{
 "policies": {
  "ExtensionSettings": {
    "*": {
      "blocked_install_message": "Blocked!",
      "install_sources": ["https://addons.mozilla.org/"],
      "installation_mode": "blocked"
    }
  }.
 }
}

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Terry
Terry

You could look at the template pages on github and searchfox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-group-policy-windows https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/en-US/browser/policies/policies-descriptions.ftl

cor-el
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Odabrano rješenje

See:

Note that your curly brackets do not match as you need to add one more '}'. You should see an error on about:policies#errors. 

{
 "policies": {
  "ExtensionSettings": {
    "*": {
      "blocked_install_message": "Blocked!",
      "install_sources": ["https://addons.mozilla.org/"],
      "installation_mode": "blocked"
    }
  }.
 }
}

Jonathan
Jonathan Vlasnik pitanja

Cor-El, thank you --- just realized that I missed 1 "}".

Sincerely, Jonathan.