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  Securing web browsers across thousands of corporate endpoints is a critical mandate for modern IT infrastructure. Left unmanaged, browsers become a primary vector for data exfiltration, shadow IT via rogue extensions, and unauthorized telemetry collection. System administrators require a deterministic, programmable method to enforce security baselines. For cross-platform Endpoint management, Mozilla provides a native policy engine driven by a single configuration file:  policies.json . This approach replaces legacy, brittle JavaScript-based AutoConfig setups ( mozilla.cfg ), offering a standardized, OS-agnostic method to lock down preferences, deploy internal extensions, and strictly disable telemetry Firefox instances might otherwise broadcast. The Architecture of Firefox Policy Evaluation Understanding how Firefox evaluates configurations is essential for predictable Firefox Enterprise deployment. When the Firefox executable initializes, it constructs its preference tree f...