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ststreetfor
Hello I am currently using MX linux version xfce and I have noticed that my firefox browser says “Your browser is being managed by your organization.” when I enter “about:preferences” page.
When I click that, it opens “about:policies” page and it says “DisableAppUpdate true”
why is that?
Also when I check firefox updates in the same “about:preferences” page it says updates will come through your mackage manager MX-Linux – 1.0 and updates disabled by your system administrator”
I tried to apt remove and apt purge firefox and installed it again but it did not go away
Any ideas?
(It is firefox 80.0 64 bit)
Xecure
Let me explain something before this thread becomes any one of the other related threads found in mx linux forum.
MX linux packages their own debs (Debian installation package files). They can be installed and updated from the MX Package Installer.
If you install something from the MX package installer it will be supported either by Debian or by the MX team, so all updates depend on them packaging the software. They first test the software and, once they are happy with the results, they package it. They may have it wait some time in the test repo and, once they think everything is stable and OK, they add it to the stable repo. Then, you receive an update notification for said package and you happily install it.Your firefox installation is supported by the MX team, so the updates are locked to only the ones coming from the MX repo. They do this to avoid that a new official firefox version (untested in debian or MX) gets installed as an update and breaks your firefox/system, and then you or someone else goes to the forum complaining about this update and demanding the MX team to fix it.
If you are unhappy with the version packaged by the MX team, you can remove firefox (using the MX package installer) and download it directly from Mozilla’s site (https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release). This is a tarball file containing the firefox binaries that you will have to install manually (it is NOT a .deb file), so all support and installation is up to you. Here you have instructions for installing in Debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#From_Mozilla_binariesAnother (temporary) solution is to delete the profiles.json file inside the firefox folder, but this solutions will only last until MX linux next firefox update.
It is up to you to decide what to do with this information.
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Thank you @Xecure, I did a quick search on mxlinux forum to see whether it is normal to see firefox policies being overwritten by mxlinux but I did not get a satisfying answer like you gave me above. I know it is an always-rolling distro that has no stable or LTS release like others and so it is pretty reasonable, as you said, to control packages to prevent crashes.
I just suspected that it may be caused by a malicious malware or virus that may have infected my browser to control my browser settings remotely without me noticing it
Your answer helped me clear my doubts, thanks !
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