Open Bug 438872 Opened 17 years ago Updated 3 years ago

need to be able to restrict access to the Options menu (via Windows Group Policy)

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: mmajewski, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008061105 Minefield/3.0pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008061105 Minefield/3.0pre We cant have users getting into the options menu and changing options. This needs to be able to be locked down just like IE is able to restrict via group policy or registry change Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: i am able to open the Options menu Expected Results: i would like to be able to restrict opening the options menu i would like to be able to restrict opening the options menu
The Group Policy bug is bug 267888 The preference window will likely need work to be able to disable setting changes which will likely be done by locking preferences so they can't also be changed by manually modifying prefs.js, user.js, or via about:config
Component: OS Integration → Preferences
QA Contact: os.integration → preferences
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Depends on: 267888
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: need to be able to restrict access to the Options menu → need to be able to restrict access to the Options menu (via Windows Group Policy)
Severity: normal → S3
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