Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox Subject: Re: policies.json Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:07:23 +0100 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <82ik9e1yp0.fsf@example.com> References: <10sin49$tkil$2@dont-email.me> <82tssy24ez.fsf@example.com> <10sj7q5$10uuo$7@dont-email.me> <69ED2D90.4020709@backwurst.de> <10sjdej$10uuo$9@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1000547"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/06wuvN5xYQjdrReWcma9HWOqgk= sha1:yokPiA065K4d74Mo0oajc7zL794= X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVCP9kHKH2H6F3MCo7nKBjsTZ2PUdKTxhrEuwTD2DcLiBDR+XzkUcS+wMGERBL Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:16833 The Real Bev writes: > > Yeah, I should have mentioned that at the beginning, but do Debian and > Redhat and the others really use something signifcantly different? > > My son just makes his entire firefox subdirectory read-only. Even > simpler, but I was satisfied with the policy method -- until FF > appeared to have sabotaged it. If you are installing from a linux distribution's repository nothing is going to look at the policy file, the package manager will simply update firefox. As far as I remember Slackware has a package manager too. But maybe firefox isn't included in it. OpenSUSE has Firefox ESR in the repo. I am using Firefox Beta so I let firefox update itself when I am ready.