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It’ll not harm your computer or browser.īut if you didn’t add any policy and you want to disable the message from Firefox, following solution will help you in getting rid of this annoying message displaying on Firefox Options page. If you applied some policies in Firefox yourself using an extension or software, then you don’t need to worry and you can ignore the message. So the bottom line is that there are some policies applied on your Firefox browser which are causing this notification message showing on Options page.

Policies in Firefox can be implemented and applied using Windows Registry or using a “ policies.json” file in Firefox installation directory.įor example: Block About:Config, About:Addons, About:Profiles and About:Support Pages This page shows a complete list of all policies existing in your Firefox installation as shown in following screenshot: You can check which policies have been applied in Firefox by visiting about:policies page in Firefox. When a policy is applied in Firefox, it starts showing “Your organization has disabled the ability to change some options” or “Your browser is being managed by your organization” error messages in Firefox.

There might be 3rd party software such as antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, security suites or Firefox extensions which applied some policies in Firefox without your knowledge. Policies support has been implemented in Firefox to restrict/prevent users from accessing certain features and functions in Firefox. For example, you can disable automatic updates in Firefox by implementing “DisableAppUpdate” policy. Actually Firefox comes with policies support and you can enable/disable features in Firefox by applying different policies. Firefox is displaying this message because one or more policies have been applied on Firefox. It might be possible that you are using Firefox in a home PC or laptop and your computer is not connected to any network or not a part of any organization, then why this error message is showing in Firefox? PROBLEM REASON:įirst of all relax, calm down and understand that your computer and web browser are safe.

Now you are worried who is managing your browser? Who has disabled or restricted you from changing Firefox options? Is your computer or web browser hacked? Your organization has disabled the ability to change some options.