Deploying Mozilla Firefox Quantum extension via group policy

Follow the steps below in order to configure a GPO that will install and enable the Impero Education Pro Mozilla Firefox Quantum extension for web filtering.

1. On your server, create a shared network folder.

2. Ensure that permissions on this folder allow access from users/computers that you wish to deploy to.

3. Download the required files from the following link - Firefox Quantum Files.

4. Unzip and place the file below into your shared network folder.

"{d623b59f-9103-48cf-be5c-68055660f7ad}.xpi"

5. Open Group Policy Management.

6. Create a new GPO for the policy (or add to an existing policy).

7. Right-click your GPO, and select "Edit".

8. You will then see the "Group Policy Management Editor" window.

9. Expand the Computer/User Configuration tree on the left-hand side, depending on how you wish to configure your policy.

10. Navigate to:

Preferences > Windows Settings > Files

11. Right-click and select "New > File".

12. In the new window, from the drop-down list select "Create".

13. In the "Source file(s)" field, enter the full UNC path to the XPI file in your shared network folder.

14. In the "Destination File" field, specify the following:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\browser\extensions\{d623b59f-9103-48cf-be5c-68055660f7ad}.xpi"

or

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\browser\extensions\{d623b59f-9103-48cf-be5c-68055660f7ad}.xpi"

depending on you Mozilla Firefox installation location

15. In the "Attributes" section tick "Read-only" and "Hidden".

16. Click on OK.

17. Back in the Group Policy Management window, assign this policy to users/computers as normal.

Follow the steps below to setup a caption block within Impero Eduction Pro that will prevent users from disabling or removing the Mozilla Firefox Quantum extension.

1. Open Impero Console.

2. Select a group of users/computers to which you wish to add the block.

3. Right click and select "Block List".

4. In the "Blocked Windows" column enter "Add-ons Manager - Mozilla Firefox" and click on "Add".

5. Click on OK.

6. The Block is now active. any users/computers within your defined group that open the "Add-ons Manager" of Firefox Quantum have that window automatically closed.