Managing Browser Settings (enforcing home page, pop-up blocker on etc)

[ChrisM100]

Just wondering if anyone else is doing this and/or have any creative suggestions for doing so?

We're trying to manage certain aspects of Safari, Firefox and Chrome and stop users modifying the settings at all.

I've deployed the preference settings as a (Composer created) package and enforced this via policy, but these can still be overridden temporarily, so I was looking for a way to remove the options (or stop them being used) altogether.

[bpavlov]

Config profiles will be your friend.

Google Chrome can be managed using the following info:
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-other-preferences
http://krypted.com/mass-deployment/deploying-and-managing-google-chrome-the-rough-guide/

Firefox, you might want to look into CCK2.

Safari, check to see what currently is available as a standard payload in config profiles. Otherwise, you might need to determine the preferences you're looking to manage and make a custom config profile.