DisableMacOSUserPolicies

Ignore policies from the user's preferences and from user-scope configuration profiles on macOS. On macOS, Firefox reads policies from sources that an administrator can write to, and from sources that a standard user can write to:

Administrator sources: policies.json, device-scope configuration profiles, /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist, and policies from the Firefox Enterprise console.
User sources: ~/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist and user-scope configuration profiles, which a standard user can install.

Policies from user sources always rank below policies from administrator sources, so a user cannot override a policy that an administrator has set. A user can still set policies that no administrator source sets. Setting DisableMacOSUserPolicies to true stops Firefox from reading policies from user sources entirely.

Values

Set to true to ignore every policy from user sources.
Set to false to allow policies from user sources. This is the same as not setting the policy.

Examples

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableMacOSUserPolicies": true
  }
}

macOS

Set this key in a device-scope configuration profile or in /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist:

<dict>
  <key>DisableMacOSUserPolicies</key>
  <true/> | <false/>
</dict>

Compatibility

Firefox	Firefox ESR	Firefox Enterprise
Available since 160	Not supported	Available since 160

Only affects macOS. Ignored when set in the user's preferences or in a user-scope configuration profile.

CCK2 Equivalent: N/A
Preferences Affected: N/A

See also