Locking Firefox Settings in a Lab Environment

[bedouin]

I'm administering a small group of machines running Windows 2000 and Firefox and needed a way to prevent people from changing the start page or proxy settings; surprisingly there's no extensions that can do this (that I found) though i did find this:

http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/03/locking-mozilla-firefox-settings.html

May be useful for someone else who administers a lab and has a no-IE policy as well (the IE settings are easy enough to lock down, though).

[Aloone_Jonez]

Just out of interest how do you prevent them from using IE?

[Jack2000]

i think he might delete
ie or lock down every page with the restriction thing
in the tools
and/or criple ie's exe

[bedouin]

I took away user permissions to run IEXPLORER.EXE.  It doesn't stop someone from opening My Computer and typing a URL into the location bar, but it's good enough for most.

[Orethrius]

Just out of interest how do you prevent them from using IE?

 XP-lite or Linux, both are trivial-enough solutions.  

[piratePenguin]

or you could block the IE agent-string at the gateway, redirect them to a "go fook yourself" page or something. since IE can't change the string...