How To Disable Installation Of Themes And Addons In Mozilla Firefox

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Here is a quick tutorial on how to disable installation of themes and addons of Mozilla Firefox. I do not know the use of this tutorial but for knowledge sake its good to know. Lets start :

1) Open Mozilla Firefox and in the address bar type about:config

2) Now click on I’ll be careful, I promise

3) In the Filter textbox type xpinstall.enabled

4) Below right click on xpinstall.enabled and select Toggle. Have a look :

5) Restart your browser.

From now when you will try to install any theme or add-on an error will come saying that addons has been disabled.


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Gaganpreet Singh on April 5, 2009 | Filed Under Mozilla

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1 Albert Pinto April 5, 2009 at 9:54 am

What is the use of it ?

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2 Gagan April 5, 2009 at 1:49 pm

@ Albert Pinto

I was just exploring about:config and found this method to disable themes. I still do not know what is the use of it.

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