On 1/10/2015 11:20 AM, John Hupp wrote:
On 1/7/2015 5:27 PM, John Hupp wrote:
Hello, all.
In Firefox for the initial user on a system, I want to customize it
(settings, add-ons, etc) and then propagate that setup to any new
users created.
I was reading https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox,
but several of the add-ons and links of interest (e.g.
firefox.dbltree.com <http://firefox.dbltree.com> and CCK add-on
<https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cck/>) no longer exist.
Anyone know a way?
--John
P.S. Next on my to-do list is a close look at SystemBack, which will
perhaps handle this chore, but for the moment I was looking at
application-native methods of doing such things. For instance, for
certain purposes I can modify the files installed by
lubuntu-default-settings. I have also had a little look at /etc/skel
and /etc/profile.d, though those two seem to have limited use in Lubuntu.
The above article from wiki.mozilla.org would seem to be the
definitive info but in fact is obsolete. My search questions must not
have been well-formed enough and I got sidetracked on the interesting
but also dated Mike Kaply articles.
Here's the good stuff:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_extensions. For all the
extensions I wanted, pasting the ID-named XPI's into <installation
directory>/browser/extensions for a Global Installation does the
trick, both for existing and new users.
SOME DETAILS:
In Lubuntu, <installation directory>/browser/extensions symlinks to
usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions.
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How-To:
At http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and http://eff.org,
right-click the Add to Firefox button or the HTTPS Everywhere link,
choose Save Link As, and save the XPI somewhere e.g. ~/Downloads.
$ gksudo pcmanfm /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions &
Open a second tab to ~/Downloads and cut/paste the XPI’s to the
extensions folder. For each, R-click: Archive Manager, open
install.rdf with leafpad and copy the <em:id> tag contents (the
extension ID). Close leafpad and Archive Manager and rename the XPI
with the ID.
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This will install the extensions for existing and new users. It does
not prompt to install as the KB indicates (Do you want to install
them?), but simply installs them.
However, it does display the same welcome/newly-installed page that
installation of each extension produces for a single-user
installation. There are probably configurations that would disable
these, but I don't currently know what they are.
LEFTOVERS:
My original question also covered global settings, and I don't have a
final answer on that yet, but it is likely something like
http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/15/customizing-firefox-default-preference-files/
+
http://mike.kaply.com/2013/05/13/more-major-changes-coming-in-firefox-21/
(for which I probably want to find a current reference at mozilla.org
or mozillazine.org).
I called this substantially solved, but concerning one of the leftovers
issues:
There is a lot of conflicting and obsolete info out there, including the
locations of the Default Preferences Files given in
http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences/A_brief_guide_to_Mozilla_preferences
But that article is correct in what it says about Changing Defaults,
option #1. And following that I created
/usr/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/all-nameofyourchoice.js
with content (make sure to terminate with an end-of-line e.g. hit Return):
pref("browser.newtabpage.enabled", false);
This has the same effect as clicking the gear tool on a new tab and
choosing Blank rather than Enhanced or Classic.
So now I know how to propogate extensions and default preferences to new
users. The only thing I have not been able to accomplish is adding
Print, History and Tab Groups to the default Firefox toolbar.
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