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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: bedouin on 3 July 2006, 06:02

Title: Locking Firefox Settings in a Lab Environment
Post by: bedouin on 3 July 2006, 06:02

I'm administering a small group of machines running Windows 2000 and Firefox and needed a way to prevent people from changing the start page or proxy settings; surprisingly there's no extensions that can do this (that I found) though i did find this:

http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/03/locking-mozilla-firefox-settings.html

May be useful for someone else who administers a lab and has a no-IE policy as well (the IE settings are easy enough to lock down, though).

Title: Re: Locking Firefox Settings in a Lab Environment
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 3 July 2006, 13:19

Just out of interest how do you prevent them from using IE?

Title: Re: Locking Firefox Settings in a Lab Environment
Post by: Jack2000 on 3 July 2006, 20:00

i think he might delete
ie or lock down every page with the restriction thing
in the tools :)
and/or criple ie's exe

Title: Re: Locking Firefox Settings in a Lab Environment
Post by: bedouin on 3 July 2006, 23:43

I took away user permissions to run IEXPLORER.EXE.  It doesn't stop someone from opening My Computer and typing a URL into the location bar, but it's good enough for most.

Title: Re: Locking Firefox Settings in a Lab Environment
Post by: Orethrius on 3 July 2006, 23:44

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez

Just out of interest how do you prevent them from using IE?

 XP-lite or Linux, both are trivial-enough solutions.  :)

Title: Re: Locking Firefox Settings in a Lab Environment
Post by: piratePenguin on 4 July 2006, 00:59

or you could block the IE agent-string at the gateway, redirect them to a "go fook yourself" page or something. since IE can't change the string...