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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.

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Is there a way for administrators to disable users from installing Firefox extensions?

Is there a way to disable the installation of Firefox extensions by non-admin users?
Victor Rodrigues
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Firefox dynamic default preference configuration

My users are all on NFS home directories and with hundreds of users all using Firefox it generates a bit of traffic reading/writing to the disk cache. As a result, I'd like to move the default Firefox disk cache over to a local file system just to…
Andrew Case
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Most efficient way to handle Firefox updates in computer labs with DeepFreeze?

I will soon be taking over responsibility for managing the software on all student computer lab machines at the university where I work. Firefox updates have tended to prove particularly irritating since it presents a tab with information about the…
Arramol
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How can I get Firefox to display MIME types in-browser?

When I click on a *.json or *.patch file in Firefox, it asks me what external application I want to view it in. However, I don't want to use an external application. It's plain text -- I just want to view it in-browser. There doesn't seem to be…
mike
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Disable Full-Screen Browsing in Firefox - for eternity

We have moved from Internet Explorer (my internal codename Exploder) to Firefox within our company. For some reason, with relative frequency, I get the very informative call from a user, "I can't see anything except [description of browser inserted…
JTWOOD
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Disable Certain Firefox Plugins System-wide by Default

I have firefox installed system-wide for all our users. Unfortunately the Adobe Reader Plug-in is rather flakey and doesn't work some of the time. As a result I want to disable the plug-in by default for all our users, but still allow them to…
Andrew Case
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How to reorder / sort profiles in Firefox

Recently I have been more and more using profiles in Firefox. I have one for every member of the family, then some for proxied firefoxes (tor, i2p, freenet), then a "guest" default profile, and several profiles for development purposes. Soooo,…
Joel.O
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how to block mailto in firefox running on windows 10

We used to be able to block mailto: window on firefox from poping up when someone clicked on a mailing address, but upgraded to windows 10 and on some pdf files if we click on an email address add an email account pops up. How can we permanently…
kevbuntu
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Why is firefox connecting to these servers on startup?

When I startup Firefox without any webpage it connects to all these hosts: $ netstat -anp | grep ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 [REDACTED]:56728 52.41.213.214:443 ESTABLISHED 28943/firefox tcp 0 0 [REDACTED]:35370 …
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Firefox ESR 52.5.2 Auto Enable Add-On

Is there a way to force a specific add-on to always be enabled? During certain software updates the add-on in question is automatically disabled (No idea why) and because this add-on is required to use the web applications that our users use on a…
Nick W.
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How can I force a firefox persona skin on all computers in my domain?

I would like to force a specific firefox persona skin on all my domain members. How can I do it?
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Firefox policy set "page blocked" text

Friends, i have restricted access to web pages with a policy.json file with WebsiteFilter block/exception. How can I change the text shown when surfing to blocked pages? The default message has no option to go back to the homepage, which basically…
Marcel
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