Your browser is being managed by your organization -- WTF??

[jax]

Why does Firefox on Linux now say "Your browser is being managed by your organization."
When I click it, I see a property set "DisableAppUpdates"?
What is going on, please?

[jscher2000]

Are you on Mint? There is a "Firefox says it’s being managed by my organization" heading in their FAQ:

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

[Thomasina]

Have the same thing on mine. can't change it to auto update even. I'm on Spectrum.Been that way for years

[dzeffarski]

I am on a Mac and see that setting.

[utopianflask_88]

I had the same issue and found this online :

> It's not actually your organization, it's your distribution using organization policies to disable Firefox's builtin update checker. Use the package manager to update Firefox.

So it's a nothing to worry about.

[Xexus]

"We’ll work with Mozilla on this, first to rephrase this, and hopefully later this year to be able to handle Firefox updates from within Firefox."  That was from the https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244 article (2022). 

[ThePillenwerfer]

I'm on Debian and long ago found it was best to remove the offically installed Firefox and install it again by downloading the tar.bz2 from Mozzila's web-site.  For some reason these seem to perform better.