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How to set up Firefox on Windows to ignore registry settings?

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Mar 15, 20264100 views
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It seems that a number of vendors are silently installing Firefox extensions via registry settings. I would like to prevent Firefox from reading any Windows registry settings at start-up. Does anyone know how to start up Firefox in a way that ignores Windows registry settings? Is this a problem tha…

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I don't know if there's an elegant solution to this, but you could go to the following keys: ... and simply adjust the Security permissions on them with Everyone - Deny... that would effectively prevent FireFox from reading its own registry settings…

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