chromium-web-store VS policy-templates

Compare chromium-web-store vs policy-templates and see what are their differences.

chromium-web-store

Allows adding extensions from chrome web store on ungoogled-chromium. Also adds semi-automatic extension updating. (by NeverDecaf)

policy-templates

Policy Templates for Firefox (by mozilla)
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chromium-web-store policy-templates
53 120
2,048 1,105
- 0.6%
6.3 8.3
about 2 months ago 4 days ago
JavaScript HTML
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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chromium-web-store

Posts with mentions or reviews of chromium-web-store. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.

policy-templates

Posts with mentions or reviews of policy-templates. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.
  • Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023
    There is no such thing as a "known trusted extension" ever since they killed sideloading extensions and forced auto-updates. 10 years ago not force updating extensions was also a thing they moved behind a flag, and then just dropped.

    Also - if you want to blacklist certain extensions from certain sites, you abso-freaking-lutely can already... see: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/READ...

    you want the `restricted_domains` field.

    It gets worse - Mozilla is the fucking worst at checking submitted extensions. They tried to the play into the whole "app store" thing that Google/Apple were doing, but those are justifiable cost centers at those two companies in a way that just doesn't work for a player like Mozilla.

    Mozilla's store checks for extensions are fairly pathetic. You can submit a near empty shell with excessive permissions, get approved the first time, then auto-update to a new release (which will deploy to users immediately thanks to auto-updates). That new version has to pass a battery of useless automatic SAST checks, which will happily highlight all sorts of things it doesn't like (it flags words like "hello" because it contains a curse word) but which won't do shit to check if you're hoovering up credentials, browsing data, tracking users, etc.

    If you're unlucky, at some point in the next 24 months you'll trigger a real review from Mozilla and get caught.

    To be blunt - I have 15 years experience writing extensions. I don't like Google. If you think Mozilla is better you're wrong.

  • Automating Pinning Extensions to the Toolbar
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 2 May 2023
    You can post a comment on Github to remind Mike to update the documentation: Pin extensions.
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 2 May 2023
    You can see the relevant JSON code in the changelog. As I said, you can post a comment on this page to remind Mike to update the documentation for policy templates.
  • Deploying MSI Firefox with Intune - Firefox gets downgraded to the version I uploaded to Intune.
    2 projects | /r/Intune | 17 Mar 2023
    I would recommend packaging it as a Win32 app and deploying it that way. Then you can deploy two configuration profiles to manage the ADMX template for Firefox. The first will ingest the ADMX template, and the second will set the settings you configure yourself. You can also (and imo is far easier) just deploy a PowerShell script that flips the settings you wish (lets you avoid doing the annoying OMA-URI for every setting you wish to push). You can find the most recent ADMX template on FireFox's GitHub for the version you are deploying or just take this one (most recent release).
  • Content block list host file
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 11 Mar 2023
    https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039248271-Group-Policy
  • i must be the only guy that understands certificates
    8 projects | /r/sysadmin | 7 Mar 2023
    Their github goes back to about 2018, and I think they've provided ADMX templates for longer than that.
  • central managed firefox downloads docx files
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 7 Mar 2023
    Check out this guide: Policy Templates for Firefox. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, click on Discussions at the top of the page to ask for help.
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 7 Mar 2023
    Does the discussion in https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/issues/873 or https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758609 sound like your problem?
  • How can I change the following firefox settings using only windows batch files
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 15 Feb 2023
    I tried the policies feature but I have a vexing issue.
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 15 Feb 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chromium-web-store and policy-templates you can also consider the following projects:

ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)

chromium-legacy - Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+

firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

anti-adblock-killer - Anti-Adblock Killer helps you keep your Ad-Blocker active, when you visit a website and it asks you to disable.

settings

ungoogled-chromium-fedora - RPM build for ungoogled-chromium

ffprofile - A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.

winchrome - Chromium for 64-bit Windows - All Codecs: MS Visual Studio 2017

dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.

ExtPay - The JavaScript library for ExtensionPay.com — payments for your browser extensions, no server needed.