Customise Firefox using a policy (policies.json)

Firefox has introduced support for policies (policy support) from version 60. This policy can be used to centrally specify and manage many default settings for Firefox. The policy can be customised using a JSON file called policies.json to implement the policy.

In TightGate-Pro, administrators can create and implement their own policies (policies.json) for Firefox at any time.

To make it easier for our customers to work with a Firefox policy, we provide a Firefox policy that already meets the current basic protection requirements of the BSI module "APP 1.2 Webbrowser" in the 2021 edition as well as the "Minimum standard of the BSI for secure web browsers".

The guideline is supplied as standard with new installations, and we offer it for download for existing installations. We also offer the corresponding configuration to edit the policy with the Firefox add-on Enterprise Policy Generator add-on.

Name Download name MD5
Firefox policypolicies.jsonmd5sum
Configuration filePolicy-export.policymd5sum

To transfer the policy to TightGate-Pro, please proceed as follows:

Note

An overview of the possible setting options of the Firefox policy can be found here: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md