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Yes. Google offers ADMX templates for controlling Chrome which can be deployed through group policy. It includes an extension blacklist, which accepts wildcards. In my case, I put a * in there. It also has an extension whitelist, and a list of "force-installed apps and extensions".

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187202?hl=en

This is one place where Google actually did really do their homework, IMHO.

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Is something comparable available for Firefox?

They are working on it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/EnterprisePolicies

I found a Firefox ADMX template project on GitHub, though it's third party and entails running a VBS file on system startup, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Most software patching solutions have a way to push files though, and you can use something like this: https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledge-base/tech-tips-tri...

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