Policy

Prevent Search Engine Installs

Mozilla Firefox

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Prevent Search Engine Installs
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Mozilla > Firefox > Search
Supported on
Firefox 60 ESR or later

If this policy is enabled, the user cannot install search engines from web page. If this policy is disabled or not configured, search engines can be installed from web pages.

Internal name
SearchEngines_PreventInstalls
Policy ID
1f36f9d4b41c
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Hive
HKCU
Path
Software\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox\SearchEngines
Value name
PreventInstalls
REG_DWORD
1
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD
Hive
HKCU
Path
Software\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox\SearchEngines
Value name
PreventInstalls
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.