Chromium Policies Managed under Linux

[Tolkem]

This is an interesting reading for those "Linuxers" who(like me)use Chromium https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/135
An excerpt:

Chromium can be controlled via preferences (mainly user preferences) and administratively rolled-out policy files.

The difference between preferences and policies are explained here:
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-other-preferences

The site-admin (or distro package maintainer) can pre-configure the user's Chromium experience via a master preferences file (/etc/chromium/master_preferences). This master preferences file is the template for the user's preferences file and gets copied over into the Chromium user profile folder on first browser start.

Note: By studying the recent Chromium code it was found out that /etc/chromium/master_preferences is the legacy filename of the initial preferences file. The new filename is /etc/chromium/initial_preferences. We will continue with master_preferences here as most Linux distributions still provide the initial preferences via this file. Whereas the new filename is already supported by Chromium in openSUSE/SLES, it is not yet support by Chromium in Debian/Ubuntu. (See Debian bug #992178).

Note that the article focuses more on deploying Chromium at an enterprise level, however, I find it to be an interesting reading, as it contains a few useful links to learn a bit of the inner workings of the browser.