Hello,
I am looking for an option so our Windows FireFox Group Policy in Windows Active Directory does NOT affect/influence our Portable App (the latest version) in Windows 8.1
At this time it realy does...
Does this exists? I am NOT looking for on option on the properties off the GPO in Windows Active Directory. I already discussed this with our GPO experts ( in Enterprise of 30000 workstaions)
With kind regards, Ben
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be an option? I used this to alter some settings in my copy of Firefox. I'm not an expert, I just experiment with things i read about elsewhere.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
Thank you,
But this does not solve our problem. I am not looking for a local file that overrides individula settings in the GPO.
Is there an option that " Blocks the settings of the GPO Firefox in Active Directory" ?
I'm sorry but what you are asking sounds like a nonsense and a system security nightmare. No insult intended!
Of course there is (should be) no legitimate provision in any software applications which would allow a user to overide or 'hack' Windows Group Policies, which will have been (or should have been) specifically and robustly designed to protect the system from being royally screwed up by users (whether by accident, ignorance or malicious intent) and/or put at risk through improper use, i.e. attempting to use a portable browser to to get around restrictions imposed on desktop software. If this were possible then it would be a direct route to chaos, putting systems directly into high risk.
If there is a legitimate reason why an individual or a group of individuals within an oganisation need access to specific applications or access specific internet sites etc. not normally permitted, then that is also what Group Policies are about and should be designed to deal with.
This really is nothing to do with PortableApps, or indeed individual Desktop Apps. It is entirely down to the proper design and application of Windows Group Policies. 'Simply' making an application portable should not alter the normal behaviour of that application beyond dealing with any portability issues, so the functionality available should be identical to that in the full desktop application, no more/no less.
I think it needs some background information.
1) We deployed a hardend, secure version of Firefox Portable App to a group of computers
2) Now we want to deploy Firefox (the real fysical installation) with a GPO. This is a less secure version. We want to prevent that the GPO has impact on the portabel app.
Any options with Windows GPO's are not allowed from our security officers.
With kind regards, Ben
Security is in everybody's heads. If you want the secure environment, work alone in a carton box. But when my browser doesn't allow me to store a password, or bypass the certificate check for development purposes, then this is a bad policy. I don't know if you have ever developed anything, but if you did, I wish you will work in the notepad, without the debugger and light in your room... because otherwise it is a system security nightmare.