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Enterprise Policy documentation

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Description

### MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage/managed

### What specific section or headline is this issue about?

_No response_

### What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

From personal experience, there is a lot of confusion about how an Enterprise Policy in Firefox (or general) should be implemented by extensions.

Users have varied views on the subject and in the absence of CLEAR guidelines, it has lead to strong disagreements.

Conceptually, an Enterprise Policy is set and controlled by the system administrator.

Some users argue that an Enterprise Policy for an extension should be editable by users _(i.e treat it as a recommendation)_.
I have also queried [#firefox-enterprise:mozilla.org](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#firefox-enterprise:mozilla.org) and they also stated that an Enterprise Policy should be controlled by the system administrator and not the user.

> I would really need them to be more specific as to what specific policies they mean.
> But in general, policies are set because admins want to control things.
> There are policies that set the default of things and allow them to change it.
> But yeah, that violates the whole idea of what policies are.

Adding a clarification document that can be referred to, would be greatly beneficial.

See also:

- [storage.managed](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage/managed)
- [3rdparty enterprise policy](https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#3rdparty)

### What did you expect to see?

a clarification document

### Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

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### Do you have anything more you want to share?

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