| 1 |
On 2020-03-03 11:26, Michael wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:57:33 GMT n952162 wrote: |
| 3 |
>> On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: |
| 4 |
>>> On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
| 5 |
>>>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote |
| 6 |
>>>> |
| 7 |
>>>>> I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your |
| 8 |
>>>>> organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break |
| 9 |
>>>>> that relationship? |
| 10 |
>>>>> |
| 11 |
>>>> Do you have Avast and/or AVG anti-virus? See |
| 12 |
>>>> |
| 13 |
>>>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1264369 (Firefox) and |
| 14 |
>>>> https://www.howtogeek.com/410106/why-does-chrome-say-its-managed-by-your-> >> org anization/ (Chrome). Some browsers have started to report when they |
| 15 |
>>>> detect external control, whether by Windows policies, or Avast/AVG. |
| 16 |
>>>> Firefox seems to be following the lead of Chrome here. |
| 17 |
>>> Are you sure this applies to Linux? |
| 18 |
>>> |
| 19 |
>>> I had thought the warning shows up when some of the browser's default |
| 20 |
>>> settings have been changed, or additional TLS Certificates have been |
| 21 |
>>> loaded. If you go to 'about:policies' you'll see anything changed there. |
| 22 |
>>> In mine FF has DisableAppUpdate, because I manage this via portage and |
| 23 |
>>> don't need FF to notify me, or even worse try to update itself. |
| 24 |
>> Yes, that's my situation. You're right, if you click on the banner, it |
| 25 |
>> takes you to about:policies and I'm happy with that policy. When I |
| 26 |
>> wrote the original post, it wasn't clear that that's all that's |
| 27 |
>> affected, but I presume that's so. |
| 28 |
>> |
| 29 |
>> The issue where it arose is that certain settings are not being recorded |
| 30 |
>> for me - at least, I presume that the privacy warning tab isn't supposed |
| 31 |
>> to appear on every start, and that I ought to be able to change my home |
| 32 |
>> page. As tempting as it is to see a conspiracy, once I realized that I |
| 33 |
>> couldn't even unpin Amazon and have it stayed unpinned, I started |
| 34 |
>> suspecting that something is wrong in my installation. |
| 35 |
> You *should* be able to change your homepage. Go into Preferences/Home/New |
| 36 |
> Windows and Tabs. Then set there what you prefer to see on the page when |
| 37 |
> Firefox launches or a new Tab is opened. |
| 38 |
> |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
Well, I can change it. It's just that the next time I start firefox, I |
| 41 |
have the old values back (and Amazon is pinned, again). |
Archives