Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:04:56 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:30:51PM +, Michael wrote > > > I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no > > experience of it. How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to > > security and performance comparisons. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:30:51PM +, Michael wrote > I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no > experience of it. How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to > security and performance comparisons. It's kept updated regularly for security. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:59:53 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get > > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone away from large > > monolithic builds to linking to local system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: On 3/4/20 12:14 AM, n952162 wrote: Yes, you're right: 01~>cat /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/policies.json {    "policies": { "DisableAppUpdate": true    } } The prediction is, if I were to remove that file, the banner would go away.  I'll try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/4/20 12:14 AM, n952162 wrote: Yes, you're right: 01~>cat /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/policies.json {   "policies": {     "DisableAppUpdate": true   } } The prediction is, if I were to remove that file, the banner would go away.  I'll try that at some point. Thank you. It will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-04 09:06, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/03/2020 00:16, n952162 wrote: I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your organization".  Oh yeah?  I guess that would be gentoo.  How can I break that relationship? I use firefox-bin and this:   qlist firefox-bin

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/03/2020 00:16, n952162 wrote: I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your organization".  Oh yeah?  I guess that would be gentoo.  How can I break that relationship? I use firefox-bin and this: qlist firefox-bin | grep json reveals that the ebuild installs: