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policies.json: this is how Firefox is configured in the company

Un administrador de TI puede bloquear extensiones, apagar el guardado de contraseñas y forzar actualizaciones en miles de equipos sin tocar una sola máquina: las políticas de Firefox Enterprise hacen eso con un archivo JSON de pocas líneas. Mozilla las documenta como parte de su oferta Firefox Enterprise , pensada para empresas que necesitan auditar y controlar el navegador en toda la…

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Mozilla's Firefox Enterprise offers a set of policies that allow administrators to configure, block, or deploy browser settings across an organization. These policies are defined in a JSON file called policies.json, which Firefox reads at startup. The file can be used to block extensions, disable password saving, and force updates, among other things.

The policies are documented in Mozilla's GitHub repository and can be applied to Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. Firefox has included an Enterprise Policy Engine since version 60, released in 2018.

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