Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

[n952162]

On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote
>>
>>> I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your
>>> organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break
>>> that relationship?
>>    Do you have Avast and/or AVG anti-virus?  See
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1264369 (Firefox) and
>> https://www.howtogeek.com/410106/why-does-chrome-say-its-managed-by-your-org
>> anization/ (Chrome).  Some browsers have started to report when they detect
>> external control, whether by Windows policies, or Avast/AVG.  Firefox
>> seems to be following the lead of Chrome here.
> Are you sure this applies to Linux?
>
> I had thought the warning shows up when some of the browser's default settings
> have been changed, or additional TLS Certificates have been loaded.  If you go
> to 'about:policies' you'll see anything changed there.  In mine FF has
> DisableAppUpdate, because I manage this via portage and don't need FF to
> notify me, or even worse try to update itself.


Yes, that's my situation.  You're right, if you click on the banner, it
takes you to about:policies and I'm happy with that policy.  When I
wrote the original post, it wasn't clear that that's all that's
affected, but I presume that's so.

The issue where it arose is that certain settings are not being recorded
for me - at least, I presume that the privacy warning tab isn't supposed
to appear on every start, and that I ought to be able to change my home
page.  As tempting as it is to see a conspiracy, once I realized that I
couldn't even unpin Amazon and have it stayed unpinned, I started
suspecting that something is wrong in my installation.

Someday when I have a day or two to waste, I'll re-emerge it.