Permissions and Pop Ups
Starting recently in Firefox, you can only see permissions and pop-ups by doing the following:
Step 1 – Go to the website.
Step 2 – Click on the lock icon or another icon in that space.
Step 3 – Click the right arrow as shown In the figure shown.
Step 4 – Click on "More Information," as shown In the figure shown.
Step 5 – After doing this, you will reach the Permissions tab, as shown In the figure shown.
The figure shown. To see permissions and pop-ups click, one must click on the lock icon and then on the right arrow.
The figure shown. The next step to see the permissions and pop-ups is to click on "More Information."
The figure shown. The Permissions tab.
You can see Firefox's pop-up exceptions using Options | Privacy & Security | Exceptions, as shown in Figure 9 and The figure shown.
The figure shown. Firefox's pop-up exceptions.
The figure shown. The pop-up exceptions page.
Netwrix Endpoint Policy Manager (formerly PolicyPak) can manipulate most areas of permissions and pop-ups. Within the Firefox AppSet, you can use the Permissions tab to enter in the values you wish for the sites that are allowed to have pop-ups and you can set permissions, as shown In the figure shown.
The figure shown. Using Endpoint Policy Manager to configure the Permissions tab.
To see a video of Endpoint Policy Manager managing permissions and pop-ups, to go https://www.policypak.com/video/endpointpolicymanager-manage-firefox-pop-ups-and-permissions-using-group-policy.html.
In the figure shown, you can see the key word after the website, like "image," "Geo," "cookie," and so on. Use Table 1 to find the key word for the area on the website you would like to manage.
Table 1: PolicyPak keywords.
| Endpoint Policy Manager Keyword (case sensitive) | Possible Verbs | Item in About:Permissions for a website | | ------------------------------------------------ | -------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------------ | | popup | Allow | Block | Open Pop-Up Windows | | camera | Allow | Block | Ask | Camera | | microphone | Allow | Block | Ask | Microphone | | fullscreen | Allow | Block | Ask | Fullscreen | | pointerLock | Allow | Block | Ask | Hide Mouse | | NOT AVAILABLE | Allow | Block | Store Passwords | | geo | Allow | Block | Ask | Share Location | | cookie | Allow | Block | Set Cookies | | indexedDB | Allow | Block | Ask | Maintain Offline Storage | | Image | Allow | Block | Load images | | Install | Allow | Block | Install Add-Ons | | desktop-notification | Allow | Block | Ask | Show Notifications | | plugin:[name] | Allow | Block | Ask | See below. |
A special case would be when you want a plugin to be enabled or always allowed for a particular website. To do this, you need the "short name" of the plugin.
Video: To see a video of how to discover the short name of a plugin and ensure it always works for a particular website, go to https://www.policypak.com/video/endpointpolicymanager-manage-firefox-plug-ins-per-website.html.
For example, if you want to ensure that when end-users go to a specific Citrix website, the Citrix ICA plugin is always set to ALLOW for that site, you would need to know the Citrix plugin short name, which is "npican." Then, you would enter http://site.com, plugin:npican, allow. This is illustrated In the figure shown.
The figure shown. The plug in short name within the Permissions tab.
This will ensure on the endpoint that Firefox will perform the ALLOW command on that plugin for that website, as shown In the figure shown.
The figure shown. The plug in is allowed in Firefox.
To get plugin short names, you need to use a SQLLite browser, like http://sqlitebrowser.org/. Then, do the following:
Step 1 – Open the firefox permissions.sqllite database, as shown In the figure shown.
Step 2 – Select the table "moz_perms."
Step 3 – Locate the website and the type, as shown In the figure shown, to discover the short name.
The figure shown. Finding the plug in short name.