{"id":4253,"date":"2026-06-08T17:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4253"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:57:55","slug":"how-to-remove-duplicate-browsing-protection-by-f-secure-extension-from-browser-for-elements-endpoint-protection","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-to-remove-duplicate-browsing-protection-by-f-secure-extension-from-browser-for-elements-endpoint-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove duplicate Browsing Protection by F-Secure extension from browser for Elements Endpoint Protection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>After installation of the new Browsing Protection by WithSecure browser add-on \/ extension, how to make sure that the old Browsing Protection by F-Secure extension is removed from the browsers, so that it doesn&#39;t create a pop-up notification for the user to enable the extension?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>For Firefox, you may try the below settings to block or uninstall the old Browsing Protection by F-Secure extension ID:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Enable the policy &quot;Extensions to uninstall&quot;, click on &quot;Show&#8230;&quot; and enter the value:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:ols@f-secure.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"mailto:ols@f-secure.com\">ols@f-secure.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Enable the policy &quot;Extensions to install&quot;, click on &quot;Show&#8230;&quot; and replace the value:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/download.sp.f-secure.com\/online-safety\/fs_firefox_https.xpi\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/download.sp.f-secure.com\/online-safety\/fs_firefox_https.xpi\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/download.sp.f-secure.com\/online-safety\/fs_firefox_https.xpi<\/a> with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/download.withsecure.com\/online-safety\/ws_firefox_https.xpi\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/download.withsecure.com\/online-safety\/ws_firefox_https.xpi\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/download.withsecure.com\/online-safety\/ws_firefox_https.xpi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Enable the policy &quot;Prevent extensions from being disabled or removed&quot;, click on &quot;Show&#8230;&quot; and replace the value:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:ols@f-secure.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"mailto:ols@f-secure.com\">ols@f-secure.com<\/a> with <a href=\"mailto:ols_main@withsecure.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"mailto:ols_main@withsecure.com\">ols_main@withsecure.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>In case InTune has been used to force install and enable browser extension\u00a0<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>If you are using\u00a0Intune to configure extensions, you need to remove the Browsing Protection by F-Secure extension from the policies, which should be the reverse to how you added them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Allow specific extensions to be installed<\/strong> \u2013 By default, all extensions are allowed. However, if you block all extensions by setting the \u2018ExtensionInstallBlockList\u2019 policy to \u201c*\u201d users can only install extensions defined in this policy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Control which extensions cannot be installed<\/strong> \u2013 List specific extensions that users are unable to install in Microsoft Edge. When you deploy this policy, any extensions on this list that were previously installed are disabled, and the user is unable to enable them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you remove an item from the list of blocked extensions<\/strong>, that extension is automatically re-enabled anywhere it was previously installed. Use \u201c*\u201d to block all extensions that aren\u2019t explicitly listed in the allow list. If you don\u2019t configure this policy, users can install any extension in Microsoft Edge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installation of the new Browsing Protection by WithSecure browser add-on \/ extension, how to make sure that the old Browsing Protection by F-Secure extension is removed from the browser so that it doesn&#8217;t create a pop-up notification for the user to enable the extension?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-4253","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000012392","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 14:57:55","import_hash":"2d1feabe1907a6ef07d85c7b3f4733bcb6a611ed","vanilla_article_id":32398,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32398-how-to-remove-duplicate-browsing-protection-by-f-secure-extension-from-browser-for-elements-endpoint-protection","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":102,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}