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Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

jax — Mon, 16 May 2022 01:49:48 GMT

Why does Firefox on Linux now say "Your browser is being managed by your organization."
When I click it, I see a property set "DisableAppUpdates"?
What is going on, please?

Re: Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

jscher2000 — Wed, 18 May 2022 19:39:28 GMT

Are you on Mint? There is a "Firefox says it’s being managed by my organization" heading in their FAQ:

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

Re: Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

Thomasina — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:37:09 GMT

Have the same thing on mine. can't change it to auto update even. I'm on Spectrum.Been that way for years

Re: Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

dzeffarski — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:21:50 GMT

I am on a Mac and see that setting.

Re: Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

utopianflask_88 — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 14:04:28 GMT

I had the same issue and found this online :

> It's not actually your organization, it's your distribution using organization policies to disable Firefox's builtin update checker. Use the package manager to update Firefox.

So it's a nothing to worry about.

Re: Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

Xexus — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:42:04 GMT

"We’ll work with Mozilla on this, first to rephrase this, and hopefully later this year to be able to handle Firefox updates from within Firefox." That was from the https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244 article (2022).

Re: Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

ThePillenwerfer — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:51:54 GMT

I'm on Debian and long ago found it was best to remove the offically installed Firefox and install it again by downloading the tar.bz2 from Mozzila's web-site. For some reason these seem to perform better.