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 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. Disable SPDY protocol Disables use of the SPDY protocol 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. Disable saving browser history Disables saving browser history in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting. If this setting is enabled, browsing history is not saved. If this setting is disabled or not configured, browsing history is saved. Enable printing Enables printing in $1Google Chrome and prevents users from changing this setting. If this setting is enabled or not configured, users can print. If this setting is disabled, users cannot print from $1Google Chrome. Printing is disabled in the wrench menu, extensions, JavaScript applications, etc. It is still possible to print from plugins that bypass $1Google Chrome while printing. For example certain Flash applications has the print option in their context menu, and that will not be disabled. 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. Disable Developer Tools Disables the Developer Tools and the JavaScript console. If you enable this setting, the Developer Tools can not be accessed and web-site elements can not be inspected anymore. Any keyboard shortcuts and any menu or context menu entries to open the Developer Tools or the JavaScript Console will be disabled. 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. 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: $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. 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: $2http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network-settings#TOC-Command-line-options-for-proxy-sett 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 Policies for HTTP Authentication Policies related to integrated HTTP authentication. Supported authentication schemes Specifies which HTTP Authentication schemes are supported by $1Google Chrome. Possible values are 'basic', 'digest', 'ntlm' and 'negotiate'. Separate multiple values with commas. Disable CNAME lookup when negotiating Kerberos authentication Specifies whether the generated Kerberos SPN is based on the canonical DNS name or the original name entered. If you enable this setting, CNAME lookup will be skipped and the server name will be used as entered. If you enable this setting, the canonical name of the server will be determined via CNAME lookup. Include non-standard port in Kerberos SPN Specifies whether the generated Kerberos SPN should include a non-standard port. If you enable this setting, and a non-standard port (i.e., a port other than 80 or 443) is entered, it will be included in the generated Kerberos SPN. If you disable this setting, the generated Kerberos SPN will not include a port in any case. Authentication server whitelist Specifies which servers should be whitelisted for integrated authentication. Integrated authentication is only enabled when $1Google Chrome receives an authentication challenge from a proxy or from a server which is in this permitted list. Separate multiple server names with commas. Wildcards (*) are allowed. Kerberos delegation server whitelist Servers that $1Google Chrome may delegate to. 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. 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. The wildcard characters '*' and '?' can be used to match sequences of arbitrary characters. '*' matches an arbitrary number of characters while '?' specifies an optional single character, i.e. matches zero or one characters. The escape character is '\', so to match actual '*', '?', or '\' characters, you can put a '\' in front of them. 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 Extensions Configures extension-related policies. The user is not allowed to install blacklisted extensions unless they are whitelisted. You can also force $1Google Chrome to automatically install extensions by specifying them in ExtensionInstallForcelist. The blacklist takes precedence over the list of forced extensions. 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. Configure the list of force-installed extensions Extension IDs and update URLs to be silently installed Allows you to specify a list of extensions that will be installed silently, without user interaction. Each item of the list is a string, that contains an extension ID and an update URL delimited by a semicolon (;). For example: lcncmkcnkcdbbanbjakcencbaoegdjlp;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx. For each item, $1Google Chrome will retrieve the extension specified by the ID from the specified URL and silently install it. The following pages explain how you can host extensions on your own server. About update URLs: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/autoupdate.html , about hosting extensions in general: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/hosting.html. Users will be unable to uninstall extensions that are specified by this policy. If you remove an extension from this list, then it will be automatically uninstalled by $1Google Chrome. Extensions that are blacklisted in 'ExtensionInstallBlacklist' and not whitelisted, cannot be force-installed by this policy. Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later $1Google Chrome preferences 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. Default search provider Configures the default search provider. You can specify the default search provider that the user will use or choose to disable default search. Enable the default search provider Enables the use of a default search provider. If you enable this setting, a default search is performed when the user types text in the omnibox that is not a URL. You can specify the default search provider to be used by setting the rest of the default search policies. If these are left empty, the user can choose the default provider. If you diable this setting, no search is performed when the user enters non-URL text in the omnibox. If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome . Default search provider name Specifies the name of the default search provider. If left empty, the host name specified by the search URL will be used. Default search provider keyword Specifies the keyword, which is the shortcut used in the omnibox to trigger the search for this provider. Optional. Default search provider search URL Specifies the URL of the search engine used when doing a default search. The URL should contain the string '{searchTerms}', which will be replaced at query time by the terms the user is searching for. Default search provider suggest URL Specifies the URL of the search engine used to provide search suggestions. The URL should contain the string '{searchTerms}', which will be replaced at query time by the text the user has entered so far. Optional. Default search provider icon Specifies the favorite icon URL of the default search provider. Optional. Default search provider encodings Specifies the character encodings supported by the search provider. Encodings are code page names like UTF-8, GB2312, and ISO-8859-1. They are tried in the order provided. The default is UTF-8. 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. Allow $3Google Chrome Frame to handle the following content types. Allow $3Google Chrome Frame to handle the following content types. Enable lock when ChromeOS devices become idle or suspended. Enable lock when ChromeOS devices become idle or suspended. If you enable this setting, users will be asked for a password to unlock ChromeOS devices from sleep. If you disable this setting, users will not be asked for a password to wake ChromeOS devices from sleep. If you enable or disable this setting, users cannot change or override this setting in $1Google Chrome OS. Data type: Windows registry location: Mac/Linux preference name: Supported on platforms: Supported in products: Supported features: Description: Example value: This is the list of policies that $1Google Chrome respects. You don't need to change these settings by hand! You can download easy-to-use templates from $5 http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates. The list of supported policies is the same for Chromium and Google Chrome, but their Windows registry locations differ. It starts with Software\Policies\Chromium for Chromium policies and with Software\Policies\Google\Chrome for Google Chrome policies. NOTE: there are some issues about this policy, visit $6 http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3/serious-problem for more details. Back to top Yes No Policy Name Description