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Pedro Delfino
Pedro Delfino

Reputation: 2711

How to permanently disable private browsing in Firefox?

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 91.0. I want to disable permanently the private browsing (incognito mode).

Especially, I want to stop the keyboard shortcut from working.

How can I do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2570

Answers (1)

Pedro Delfino
Pedro Delfino

Reputation: 2711

Follow the recipe:

    1. In terminal, go to: /usr/lib/firefox/distribution

Obs.: This is the correct directory if you are using Firefox version 91.0 and Ubuntu 20.04. Depending on the Firefox version and/or OS this might be different.

    1. If there is no policies.json file, then create one:
 $ sudo touch policies.json
    1. The file's content needs to be:
{
  "policies": {
    "DisablePrivateBrowsing": true
  }
}
    1. If you are facing problems with "read-only", invoke your favorite editor using sudo, such as:
$ sudo emacs policies.json 
$ sudo vim policies.json 
$ sudo gedit policies.json
    1. Re-start Firefox and try using Control-Shift-P. Hopefully, it won't work.

Upvotes: 3

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