724249 - lockPref("config.lockdown.disable_extensions", true); ignored.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 668999

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[dale.lloyd]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

Created local-settings.js and mozilla.cfg files. Some settings in mozilla.cfg are respected but lockPref("config.lockdown.disable_extensions", true); and lockPref("xpinstall.enabled", false); do not function as expected.


Actual results:

If I access Add-ons from the Firefox menu and SEARCH for an add-on, I am able to click install and then run the add-on.


Expected results:

Should say "Software installation has been disabled by your system administrator". Featured ad-ons listed in the Get Ad-ons page are correctly blocked, but the same ad-ons can be installed if they are found by using the search box.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

and do you see that xpinstall.enabled is set to false in about:config ?

Comment 2

[dale.lloyd]

Yes, the settings do appear as expected in about:config

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

config.lockdown.disable_extensions is not a Firefox preference. It came from OpenSUSE.

As far as the other problem, yes that is an issue. Setting xpinstall.enabled to false (and locking it) still allows the user install add-ons via the add-ons pane in preferences.

I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of 668999 which is the larger issue that xpinstall.enabled false doesn't work as advertised