Firefox on a domain

DustyMiller · 4 Sep 2007 at 11:52

Is there a tool anywhere, or anyway of setting a users proxy settings in firefox, and locking it so they cannot change it. As we have users on our domain that use firefox, and we would like to force them through our Proxy server, and also keep them off the slow backup link, and onto the fast primary ADSL link.

Cheers Dusty.

tolien · 4 Sep 2007 at 12:01

AFAIK it can't be done, short of blocking or redirecting HTTP traffic that doesn't go through the proxy.

Building Fx into an MSI and making it use GPO is being worked on; some of it might make it to Firefox 3 (see this Mozillazine thread).

oddjob62 · 4 Sep 2007 at 12:21

Just block outgoing http(s) traffic from all machines except the proxy server

sidethink · 4 Sep 2007 at 13:24

DustyMiller said:
Is there a tool anywhere, or anyway of setting a users proxy settings in firefox, and locking it so they cannot change it. As we have users on our domain that use firefox, and we would like to force them through our Proxy server, and also keep them off the slow backup link, and onto the fast primary ADSL link.

Cheers Dusty.

If its that much of a problem, stop them using fox....

You have to balance a lot of issues when managing a network and generally speaking, you should stick to a standard set of apps for your users - it will cut down on headaches like this immensely.

TheKnat · 4 Sep 2007 at 13:42

oddjob62 said:
Just block outgoing http(s) traffic from all machines except the proxy server

This is what we do. Most users are forced to use IE anyway, but the users who can use FF have to go through our proxy or not get out to the net

DustyMiller · 4 Sep 2007 at 13:44

Just been shown that it can be done .......

http://in-cider.spaces.live.com/

Also we have multiple links out, and we are trying to force them to use the primary link.