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Hide Tools Menu

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:57 am
by byronious
Greetings and well done on a superb job.

One quick question, is there away for me disable the 'tools' menu, with or without GPO.

Many thanks for your help.

Regards

Byron

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:43 am
by byronious
I take that as a no then? heh :P

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:17 pm
by ReedMikel
I would think there are plenty of scenarios where many admins would want to prevent users from modifying their FireFox.adm settings. So how do we stop users from messing with the FFCE settings we admins define in a GPO?

Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:27 pm
by DraconPern
Users can't modify settings defined in the GPO if they are pushed out with AD. Unless your users are Admins on the local machine, in which case you have got bigger problems. ;)

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:37 am
by ReedMikel
I think a lot of IT admins still assign local admin rights to users, since a lot of software does not work properly otherwise. I have only recently stopped the practice of assigning local Administrator rights to the Domain Users group, and manually sort out the problems it causes with some software packages...

Re: Hide Tools Menu

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:17 am
by Tulip
Mozilla has info on how to modify the menu toolbar including hiding Tools. It's not via group policy but could be useful in some environments (I use this method).

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips

tb.

Re:

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:14 am
by DraconPern
ReedMikel wrote:I think a lot of IT admins still assign local admin rights to users, since a lot of software does not work properly otherwise. I have only recently stopped the practice of assigning local Administrator rights to the Domain Users group, and manually sort out the problems it causes with some software packages...
I think you are right especially with regard to small businesses with outsourced IT. I just witnessed an install of a doctor's office where all users were given local admin rights. I guess it makes sense for the IT shops to do this. It means repeat business! Not sure if it was done out of incompetence, greed or just lazyness.

Re: Hide Tools Menu

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:50 am
by ReedMikel
I doubt it was intentional at all. It's simply a matter of poor design (security) on Microsoft's part, along with all the 3rd party software providers. Like I said, some software packages just do not tolerate running without local admin rights :(

Getting back to my original post - will we ever be able to prevent downloads in FF using an AD setting (like IE has had all along)? Talk about a security hole :)