Configure Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Devices

Setting

Description

HomePage

Choose to,

• Allow users to Control
• Open a New Tab
• Launch below URL
  • Home Page URL: Enter URL of website that should open when you click on Home button of chrome/edge browser.
  • Launch URLs: Enter URLs of websites that should open on launch of chrome/edge browser. You can add multiple URLs which will open in separate tabs at the launch of browser. The URLs you enter should be separated by comma.

HomeButton

Configure if you want to enforce the "Home" button or hide it.

Setting

Description

Bookmark Folder Name

Provide a name for the bookmark bar.

Note: Empty bookmark folder names will not show up until a bookmark is added.

Bookmark Bar

Configure Bookmark bar visibility, you can either enforce it or disable it or let users control it.

Developer Tools

Choose to Allow or Disable developer tools. Allowing it will allow the use of F12 key or Inspect option on web-pages.

AutoFill

Select AutoFill behavior by enforcing it, disabling it or having users control it.

Setting

Description

Cookie Policy

Define a Cookie policy by allowing or blocking them. You can also choose to delete them once the browser is closed.

Run Javascript

Configure if Javascript is allowed to run.

Please note that most modern websites need Javascript to be allowed.

Popups

Configure of popups are allowed to be displayed or blocked.

Plugins

Allows you to set whether websites are allowed to automatically run the Flash plugin

Google Web Search

Configure if SafeSearch in Google Search is always active.

YouTube Restriction Mode

Enforces a minimum Restricted Mode on YouTube and prevents users from picking a less restricted mode.

Extend Allowed Website List Rules

You can choose to extend the Allowed Websites that you have allowed by the following options,

• Allow only the URLs in Allowed Website section: Default option.
• Allow the domains of the URLs in Allowed section: Allows the domains of the URLs that are allowed. e.g: If https://scalefusion.com is allowed, then all URLs from "scalefusion" domain are allowed.
• Allow All Except below: Allow all websites except the ones entered in the text input below, that is specify a blocked list. Please enter the websites in the format https://www.chromium.org/administrators/url-blacklist-filter-format

Setting

Description

Password Manager

If this settings is disabled, users cannot save new passwords but they may still use passwords that have been saved previously.

Incognito Mode

Specifies whether the user may open pages in Incognito mode.

Browser History

Control if browsing history should be saved.

Clear Browser History

Control if users can delete browsing and download history.

Note that even with this policy disabled, the browsing and download history are not guaranteed to be retained: users may be able to edit or delete the history database files directly, and the browser itself may expire or archive any or all history items at any time.

Malicious Sites

Prevent users from proceeding anyway from the warning page to the malicious site.

Note: This policy only prevents users from proceeding on Safe Browsing warnings (e.g. malware and phishing) not for SSL certificate related issues like invalid or expired certificates.

GeoLocation

Allows you to set whether websites are allowed to track the users' physical location. Tracking the users' physical location can be allowed by default, denied by default or the user can be asked every time a website requests the physical location.

Browser SignIn

This policy controls the sign-in behavior of the browser. You can Allow, Block or Force the users to SignIn using their managed account.

Force Ephemeral Mode

If set to Erase after session, then the profile data is persisted on disk only for the length of the user session. Features like browser history, extensions and their data, web data like cookies and web databases are not preserved after the browser is closed. However this does not prevent the user from downloading any data to disk manually, save pages or print them.

Setting

Description

Proxy Settings

The options are,

• User Control: Let users control the setting.
• Never Use Proxy: Enforce direct connection.
• Auto-Detect: Auto-Detect proxy based on system settings.
• Proxy URL: Specify a valid https(s) URL defining the proxy rules.
• Proxy File URL: Provide a URL for a file containing the proxy rules.

Setting

Description

Search Suggestions

Enable or disable search suggestions in omnibox and prevents users from changing this setting.

Default Search Provider

Lockdown the default search provider by providing the following details,

• Search Provider Name: The Search providers name.
• Search Provider Keyword: Specifies the keyword, which is the shortcut used in the omnibox to trigger the search for this provider.
• Search Provider URL: Should be in the format of https://<url>q{searchTerms} e.g: https://bing.com/search?q{searchTerms}
• Search Provider Icon: Optionally provide the icon for the search provider.

Setting

Description

Printing Settings

If this setting is enabled or not configured, users can print. If this setting is disabled, users cannot print from the browser. Printing is disabled in the wrench menu, extensions, JavaScript applications, etc.

Note: It is still possible to print from plugins that bypass Google Chrome while printing. For example, certain Flash applications have the print option in their context menu, which is not covered by this policy.

Google Cloud Print

Allow or Block documents to be submitted to Google Cloud Print.

Cloud Printer Management

Allow or Block users to add or remove cloud printers.