1269273 - Add ability to disable/restrict to access devtools for the user

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1408969

(DevTools :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[YUKI "Piro" Hiroshi]

For enterprise use, web developer tools are thought as dangerous and the system administrator hope to disable them completely - hide menus, toolbar buttons, and disable keyboard shortcuts to start them. Now we can do it via CSS (userChrome.css) and legacy addons, but after XUL is ended, we need something to alternate them.

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

I don't think there should be a specific WebExtension API for this. I'm not sure if the dev tools has an ideas about this though.

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

We've been thinking about this recently.  Right now the current thinking is that DevTools may itself become an add-on that isn't installed by default.  Lifting ourselves outside the browser has a lot of benefits for us and would also likely give us a route to solving this enterprise issue.

See this discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.developer-tools/rUmAom_L3kc

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

So then this would likely fall under a general "don't allow add-ons to be installed" kind of setting?

Comment 4

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

(In reply to Andy McKay [:andym] from comment #3)
> So then this would likely fall under a general "don't allow add-ons to be
> installed" kind of setting?

In theory, yes. Though the technical details for how the devtools add-on would work have yet to be worked out.

Comment 5

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

With bug 1408969, DevTools can be disabled completely with a user pref.
I don't know if admins can prevent changes to user prefs, but if they can, this would solve this bug.

Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Patrick Brosset <:pbro> from comment #5)
> With bug 1408969, DevTools can be disabled completely with a user pref.
> I don't know if admins can prevent changes to user prefs, but if they can,
> this would solve this bug.

They can lock a pref ( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lock_Prefs ), so yes.