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Re:Firefox now tells Mozilla what your default browser is ev... by 1996 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:35PM (#22819532)
spyware that firefox seem to emulate quite well given these news.

BTW, your suggestions do not in the firefox I have:

New-ItemProperty : Cannot find path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox' because it does not exist. At line:1 char:3 + New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:/SOFTWARE/Policies/Mozilla/Firefox" -N ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox:String) [New-ItemProperty], ItemNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemPropertyCommand

ERROR: The specified task name "\Mozilla\Firefox Default Browser Agent 308046B0AF4A39CB" does not exist in the system.

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Re:Firefox now tells Mozilla what your default browser is ev... by jlgaddis on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:43PM (#22819572)
Sorry,

  New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox"
might be neccesary first, if Firefox didn't already create it. Or it could be because I originally used forward slashes instead of back slashes (now fixed!).
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