Configure the default home page
Configure the default home page in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing it.
The user's home page settings are only completely locked down, if you either select the home page to be the new tab page, or set it to be a URL and specify a home page URL. If you don't specify the home page URL, then the user is still able to set the home page to the new tab page by specifying 'chrome://newtab'.
Configures the default home page URL in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing it.
The home page type can either be set to a URL you specify here or set to the New Tab Page.
If you select the New Tab Page, then this policy is ignored.
If you enable this setting, users cannot change their home page URL in $1Google Chrome, but they can still can choose the New Tab Page as their home page.
Configure the home page URL
Home page URL
Configures the type of the default home page in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing home page preferences. The home page can either be set to a URL you specify or set to the New Tab Page.
If you enable this setting, always the New Tab Page is used for the home page, and the home page URL location is ignored.
If you disable this setting, the user's homepage will never be the New Tab Page, unless its URL is set to 'chrome://newtab'.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change their homepage type in $1Google Chrome.
Use New Tab Page as homepage
Configure the application locale
Application locale
Configures the application locale in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing the locale.
If you enable this setting, $1Google Chrome uses the specified locale. If the configured locale is not supported, 'en-US' is used instead.
If this setting is disabled or not configured, $1Google Chrome uses either the user-specified preferred locale (if configured), the system locale or the fallback locale 'en-US'.
Enable alternate error pages
Enables the use of alternate error pages that are built into $1Google Chrome (such as 'page not found') and prevents users from changing this setting.
If you enable this setting, alternate error pages are used.
If you disable this setting, alternate error pages are never used.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Enable search suggestions
Enables search suggestions in $1Google Chrome's Omnibox and prevents users from changing this setting.
If you enable this setting, search suggestions are used.
If you disable this setting, search suggestions are never used.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Enable DNS prefetching
Enables DNS prefetching in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Enable JavaScript
Enables JavaScript in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting.
If this setting is enabled or not configured, web pages can use JavaScript.
If this setting is disabled, web pages cannot use JavaScript.
Enable AutoFill
Enables $1Google Chrome's AutoFill
feature and allows users to auto complete web forms using previously stored
information such as address or credit card information.
If you enable this setting, AutoFill is always active.
If you disable this setting, AutoFill is never active.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Show Home button on toolbar
Shows the Home button on $1Google
Chrome's toolbar.
If you enable this setting, the Home button is always shown.
If you disable this setting, the Home button is never shown.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Enable Safe Browsing
Enables $1Google Chrome's Safe Browsing feature and prevents users from changing this setting.
If you enable this setting, Safe Browsing is always active.
If you disable this setting, Safe Browsing is never active.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Disable synchronization of data with Google
Disables data synchronization in $1Google Chrome using Google-hosted synchronization services and prevents users from changing this setting.
If you enable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Configure proxy server
Allows you to specify the proxy server used by $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing proxy settings.
If you choose to never use a proxy server and always connect directly, all other options are ignored.
If you choose to auto detect the proxy server, all other options are ignored.
For detailed examples, visit:
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If you enable this setting, $1Google Chrome ignores all proxy-related options specified from the command line.
Choose how to specify proxy server settings
Never use a proxy
Auto detect proxy settings
Manually specify proxy settings
Use system proxy settings
Address or URL of proxy server
Proxy bypass rules
Comma-separated list of proxy bypass rules
URL to a proxy .pac file
Allows you to specify the proxy server used by $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing proxy settings.
If you choose to never use a proxy server and always connect directly, all other options are ignored.
If you choose to use system proxy settings or auto detect the proxy server, all other options are ignored.
If you choose manual proxy settings, you can specify further options in 'Address or URL of proxy server', 'URL to a proxy .pac file' and 'Comma-separated list of proxy bypass rules'.
For detailed examples, visit:
$2http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network-settings#TOC-Command-line-options-for-proxy-sett
If you enable this setting, $1Google Chrome ignores all proxy-related options specified from the command line.
You can specify the URL of the proxy server here.
This policy only takes effect if you have selected manual proxy settings at 'Choose how to specify proxy server settings'.
For more options and detailed examples, visit:
$2http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network-settings#TOC-Command-line-options-for-proxy-sett
$1Google Chrome will bypass any proxy for the list of hosts given here.
This policy only takes effect if you have selected manual proxy settings at 'Choose how to specify proxy server settings'.
For more detailed examples, visit:
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You can specify a URL to a proxy .pac file here.
This policy only takes effect if you have selected manual proxy settings at 'Choose how to specify proxy server settings'.
For detailed examples, visit:
$2http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network-settings#TOC-Command-line-options-for-proxy-sett
Enable reporting of usage and crash-related data
Enables anonymous reporting of usage and crash-related data about $1Google Chrome to Google and prevents users from changing this setting.
If you enable this setting, anonymous reporting of usage and crash-related data is sent to Google.
If you disable this setting, anonymous reporting of usage and crash-related data is never sent to Google.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Configure the password manager
Configures the password manager. If the password manager is enabled, then you can choose to enable or disable whether the user may show stored passwords in clear text.
Enable the password manager
Enables saving passwords and using saved passwords in $1Google Chrome.
If you enable this setting, users can have $1Google Chrome memorize passwords and provide them automatically the next time they log in to a site.
If you disable this setting, users are not able to save passwords or use already saved passwords.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Allow users to show passwords in Password Manager
Controls whether the user may show passwords in clear text in the password manager.
If you disable this setting, the password manager does not allow showing stored passwords in clear text in the password manager window.
If you enable or do not configure this setting, users can view their passwords in clear text in the password manager.
Specify a list of disabled plugins
Specifies a list of plugins that are disabled in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting.
If you enable this setting, the specified list of plugins is never used in $1Google Chrome. The plugins are marked as disabled in 'about:plugins' and users cannot enable them.
List of disabled plugins
Configure allowed extensions
Configures extension installation blacklist and whitelist. The user is not allowed to install blacklisted extensions. If you add an already installed extension to the blacklist, then it gets automatically uninstalled from the user's machine.
A blacklist value of * means all extensions are blacklisted unless they are explicitly listed in the whitelist.
Configure extension installation blacklist
Extension IDs the user should be prevented from installing (or * for all)
Allows you to specify which extensions the users can NOT install.
A blacklist value of * means all extensions are blacklisted unless they are explicitly listed in the whitelist.
Configure extension installation whitelist
Extension IDs to exempt from the blacklist
Allows you to specify which extensions are not subject to the blacklist.
A blacklist value of * means all extensions are blacklisted and users can only install extensions listed in the whitelist.
By default, all extensions are whitelisted, but if all extensions have been blacklisted by policy, the whitelist can be used to override that policy.
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later
$1Google Chrome preferences
Configure startup pages
Allows you to configure the pages that are loaded on startup.
The contents of the list 'URLs to open at startup' are ignored unless you select 'Open a list of URLs' in 'Action on startup'.
Action on startup
Allows you to specify the behavior on startup.
If you choose 'Open home page' the home page will always be opened when you start $1Google Chrome.
If you choose 'Reopen the URLs that were open last', the URLs that were open last time $1Google Chrome was closed will be reopened.
If you choose 'Open a list of URLs', the list of 'URLs to open on startup' will be opened when a user starts $1Google Chrome.
If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome.
Open home page
Reopen the URLs that were open last
Open a list of URLs
URLs to open on startup
If 'Open a list of URLs' is selected as the startup action, this allows you to specify the list of URLs that are opened.
Configure the default renderer for $3
Google Chrome Frame
Configure the default HTML renderer when
$3Google Chrome Frame
is installed.
The default setting is to allow the host browser do the rendering, but you can optionally override this and have $3
Google Chrome Frame render HTML pages by default.
For example patterns for the lists, see $4
http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started.
Configure the default HTML renderer for $3Google Chrome Frame
Default HTML renderer for $3Google Chrome Frame
Allows you to configure the default HTML renderer when $3Google Chrome Frame
is installed.
The default setting is to allow the host browser do the rendering, but you
can optionally override this and have $3
Google Chrome Frame render HTML pages by default.
Use the host browser by default
Use $3Google Chrome Frame by default
Always render the following URL patterns in $3Google Chrome Frame
Customize the list of URL patterns that should always be rendered by $3Google Chrome Frame.
For example patterns see http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started.
Always render the following URL patterns in the host browser
Customize the list of URL patterns that should always be rendered by the host browser.
For example patterns see http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started.
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You don't need to change these settings by hand! You can download easy-to-use templates from
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http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates.
NOTE: there are some issues about this policy, visit
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http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3/serious-problem for more details.
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