Password protection for my add-on

Add-ons
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Hi in my add-on i get reviews from people who likes it, but i get allways the same remarks, my add-on is easy to remove , what my users want is a password protection who prevent it to be removed by other users using the same computer.

so my question is how to add a password protection to avoid deinstallation in the add-on panel.

i would like to use this method

http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#ExtensionInstallForcelist

thanks

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That is something that administrators of a machine would have to set up and not something in the control of your extension. One example would be the upcoming https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/11/announcing-esr60-policy-engine/

Alternatively you could just ask them to install the extension to the correct directory, so it can not be removed by users: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Alternative_distribution_options/Sideloading_add-ons (that still allows users to disable it.)

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thanks for the infos i was also looking for another technique, is to make a reg file who is launched by the user, after he install the extension and then the reg file add a policy into the registry who make the extension impossible to remove, can only be removed by the registry (advanced users, childrens dont know how to remove it )

http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#ExtensionInstallForcelist

but i dont know what to add in the reg file :s

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The Firefox policy engine will work similarly, and you can sideload via registry iirc. But there’s no such thing like the policies in chromium apart from that.

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well if you know ho i can add Firefox policy engine to my extension it would be awesome :smiley:

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That is not something you can do from the extension. These are things that have to explicitly be done from the outside.

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how people secure then their own add-on from being disabled by users?
i mean if you do a parental control add-on for example ?

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They don’t, without additional setup steps required by the user.

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but then, how to sideload via registry iirc ?
my add-on is hosted in firefox official add-ons.