Closed Bug 1666138 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Firefox: Addition of option to automatically deny any requests for add-on installation

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

80 Branch
enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: elliottabarnes, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0

Steps to reproduce:

Whilst browsing, I've noticed several websites that prompt users to install Firefox add-ons; it appears that this prompt can be displayed without any interaction from a user. As we've done for notifications and requests to access location/microphone/camera, could we possibly consider also adding an option to automatically deny all requests to install Firefox add-ons? This would provide a safety net, and make it impossible for add-ons to accidentally be installed.

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit

This should be already possible through the Firefox enterprise policies, see docs of the properties available here:

Let us know if the enterprise policies settings currently available are not yet covering your needs.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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