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On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:57:33 GMT n952162 wrote: |
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> On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote |
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> >>> I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your |
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> >>> organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break |
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> >>> that relationship? |
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> >>> |
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> >> Do you have Avast and/or AVG anti-virus? See |
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> >> |
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> >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1264369 (Firefox) and |
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> >> https://www.howtogeek.com/410106/why-does-chrome-say-its-managed-by-your-> >> org anization/ (Chrome). Some browsers have started to report when they |
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> >> detect external control, whether by Windows policies, or Avast/AVG. |
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> >> Firefox seems to be following the lead of Chrome here. |
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> > |
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> > Are you sure this applies to Linux? |
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> > I had thought the warning shows up when some of the browser's default |
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> > settings have been changed, or additional TLS Certificates have been |
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> > loaded. If you go to 'about:policies' you'll see anything changed there. |
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> > In mine FF has DisableAppUpdate, because I manage this via portage and |
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> > don't need FF to notify me, or even worse try to update itself. |
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> Yes, that's my situation. You're right, if you click on the banner, it |
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> takes you to about:policies and I'm happy with that policy. When I |
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> wrote the original post, it wasn't clear that that's all that's |
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> affected, but I presume that's so. |
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> The issue where it arose is that certain settings are not being recorded |
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> for me - at least, I presume that the privacy warning tab isn't supposed |
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> to appear on every start, and that I ought to be able to change my home |
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> page. As tempting as it is to see a conspiracy, once I realized that I |
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> couldn't even unpin Amazon and have it stayed unpinned, I started |
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> suspecting that something is wrong in my installation. |
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You *should* be able to change your homepage. Go into Preferences/Home/New |
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Windows and Tabs. Then set there what you prefer to see on the page when |
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Firefox launches or a new Tab is opened. |