Policy templates for Firefox 148 and Firefox ESR 140.8

Note: While these templates will work for Firefox ESR 128, they might contain new policies that are not in Firefox ESR 128. If you need to manage Firefox ESR 128, you should use v6.11

We are in the process of migrating the policy documentation to a dedicated site for Firefox admins. This will be the last release that references documentation here.

The policy templates will continue to live here.

I'm no longer using a versioned README for documentation, I'm using a GitHub page which is available at:

https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

You can search on the corresponding version of Firefox (148 in this case) to see version specific policy changes.

If you need to see version specific documentation, you can use this link:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v7.8/docs/index.md

Special Notes

The new AI Controls have debuted in Firefox 148, but folks have noticed that not all of them are controlled with the GenerativeAI policy. This was a conscious decision by me because the way it is implemented today, all existing AI or ML features would be turned off and I wasn't sure if folks wanted it this way.

If you want to turn off Image alt text in Firefox PDF viewer, you can use the following Preferences policy:

"Preferences": {
      "browser.ai.control.pdfjsAltText": {
        "Value": "blocked",
        "Status": "locked",
        "Type": "string"
      },
      "pdfjs.enableAltText": {
        "Value": false,
        "Status": "locked",
        "Type": "boolean"
      }
}

Translations is controlled by the TranslateEnabled policy.

I will revisit this in the next release based on feedback I get.

New policies

DisableRemoteImprovements - Prevent Firefox from applying performance, stability, and feature changes between updates. This only applies to Firefox 148.

Note: Due to a bug, the preferences page does not correctly show the status of this policy. This will be fixed in the next release.