Closed Bug 1268407 Opened 9 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Add ability to disallow install/uninstall search engines by the user

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 289826
Tracking Status
firefox49 --- affected

People

(Reporter: yuki, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [design-decision-denied]triaged)

For enterprise use, available search engines are wanted to be restricted and the administrator hopes to disallow installing of new search engines by users. In current Firefox we can do it by hiding "Add Search Engine" UIs via userChrome.css or something. After XUL is ended, we need something to alter it.
This is similar/related to the bug 1268401.
Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed]triaged
A sample plan of the API is here: chrome.extensions.lock() // disallow to install new addons chrome.extensions.unlock() // allow to install new addons This API should require special permissions.
Sorry, I wrongly posted different API idea... The idea for the search engines is: chrome.searchengines.lock() // disallow to install new engine chrome.searchengines.unlock() // allow to install new engine I think the API should control only for installations by the user himself, in other words, installation of search engines from addons (via another API) should be allowed. Or, these method may have an optional parameter to specify the level of restriction: only for users, or anyone (including addons). This API should require special permissions
Component: WebExtensions: Untriaged → WebExtensions: General
We don't plan on this API in WebExtensions. Moving over to Firefox to see if that's something that would happen through configuration of other means.
Status: NEW → UNCONFIRMED
Component: WebExtensions: General → General
Ever confirmed: false
Product: Toolkit → Firefox
Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed]triaged → [design-decision-denied]triaged
Component: General → Search
Removing from webextensions-additional-apis, this belongs in some kind of policy system.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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