Deprecated Chrome policies

Last updated for Chrome 76.

Applies to managed Chrome Browsers and Chrome devices.

For administrators who manage Chrome Browser or Chrome devices for a business or school.

You can use Chrome policies to control how your users experience Chrome Browser and devices running Chrome OS. New releases of Chrome introduce new policies and sometimes deprecate old ones. Deprecated policies continue to work in the current release, but they will be removed from future releases of Chrome.

You can unset deprecated policies using the same policy-management tools you used to set them. We recommend replacing deprecated policies with an alternative policy (see below). You should unset policies you’re not using.

For full descriptions of Chrome policies, including the deprecated ones, see the Policy List.

Recently deprecated policies

Policy	Alternative
ContextualSuggestionsEnabled	No alternative available.
EnableSymantecLegacyInfrastructure	No alternative available.

Other deprecated and removed policies

Deprecated before Chrome 75

The following policies were deprecated before Chrome 75. Use alternative policies instead, when available.

Policy	Alternative
AutoFillEnabled	AutofillAddressEnabled and AutofillCreditCardEnabled
DefaultSearchProviderInstantURL	No alternative available.
DefaultSearchProviderInstantURLPostParams	No alternative available.
DefaultSearchProviderSearchTermsReplacementKey	No alternative available.
DeveloperToolsDisabled	DeveloperToolsAvailability
DeviceEcryptfsMigrationStrategy	EcryptfsMigrationStrategy
EnableSha1ForLocalAnchors	No alternative available.
ForceBrowserSignin	BrowserSignin
IncognitoEnabled	IncognitoModeAvailability
JavascriptEnabled	DefaultJavaScriptSetting
MachineLevelUserCloudPolicyEnrollmentToken	CloudManagementEnrollmentToken
MediaCacheSize	No alternative available.
PacHttpsUrlStrippingEnabled	No alternative available.
SafeBrowsingExtendedReportingOptInAllowed	SafeBrowsingExtendedReportingEnabled
SSLVersionMax	No alternative available.
SupervisedUserCreationEnabled	No alternative available.
SupervisedUserContentProviderEnabled	No alternative available.
SupervisedUsersEnabled	No alternative available.
TabUnderAllowed	DefaultPopupsSetting
UnsafelyTreatInsecureOriginAsSecure	OverrideSecurityRestrictionsOnInsecureOrigin

Deprecated before Chrome 60

The following policies were deprecated before Chrome 60. Use alternative policies instead, when available.

Deprecated plug-in policies

Policy	Flash alternative	PDF viewer alternative
DisabledPlugins	DefaultPluginsSetting	AlwaysOpenPdfExternally
DisabledPluginsExceptions	DefaultPluginsSetting	AlwaysOpenPdfExternally
EnabledPlugins	DefaultPluginsSetting	AlwaysOpenPdfExternally

Deprecated remote-access policies

Policy	Alternative
RemoteAccessHostClientDomain	RemoteAccessHostClientDomainList
RemoteAccessHostDomain	RemoteAccessHostDomainList

Other deprecated policies

Policy	Alternative
DefaultMediaStreamSetting	No alternative available.
DisabledSchemes	URLBlacklist
ForceSafeSearch	ForceGoogleSafeSearch or ForceYouTubeRestrict
ForceYouTubeSafetyMode	ForceYouTubeRestrict
ProxyServerMode	ProxyMode
RC4Enabled	No alternative available.
SigninAllowed	SyncDisabled
SSLVersionFallbackMin	No alternative available.

Deprecated before Chrome 35

The following power-management policies have been deprecated since Chrome 35. There are no alternatives.

Permanently removed from policy list

The following policies are no longer available in Chrome. Do not use them.