On 1/9/2015 7:02 AM, Eric Bradshaw 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>
<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.
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John,
User addons for Firefox are (for the most part I believe) .xpi files
and are stored in
home/theusername/.mozilla/firefox/crazymixof#s&letters.default-stringof#s/extensions.
You propagate the settings, addons, bookmarks, etc. to newly created
users by including the whole .mozilla folder in /etc/skel. Including
things in skel is the default way (in any *buntu) to ensure new users
have the same "settings," or "profile" as the user account the
system/distro/respin is being created on.
However, Systemback automatically picks up the settings/profile of the
user account used to create the backup ("Live system create" in my
case) when the box to "Include user data files" is checked. As far as
I can tell; everything I'd usually have to specifically include in
skel is automatically carried over.
So, that means I no longer have to make sure I include the latest
".whatever" folders in skel to pass on the settings for several
different applications (including Firefox) to the newly created users.
I simply set up the user account - I'm using Systemback on - the way I
want it to be, before I create the live system.
By the way; I set aside a separate machine (though a different user
account would probably work just as well) for system creation as I'd
imagine either method on a computer/account I use for myself would be
too easily "contaminated" with my own stuff.
Eric
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Thank you,
God bless you,
Computers4Christians
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Thanks Eric, for the additional info on the behavior of Systemback. I'll
be looking at that soon. Also the confirmation that /etc/skel is fully
respected as the general-purpose tool for propagating files to new
users. It seems like it would probably work for my purposes.
But to raise a few prospective issues: I'm talking about propagating a
Firefox setup /on a single machine/ to additional new users. The skel
method would create identically-named profiles for each of those users,
which is not what Firefox does in an ordinary new installation. But
that would not be a problem because they would be in different sessions
and not know about each other, unless perhaps the user made use of the
Firefox Sync feature? Do cookies use the profile name?
And in the meantime, I found veteran Firefox developer Mike Kaply and
the many informative articles that he has generously written. For instance:
Integrating Add-ons into Firefox
<http://mike.kaply.com/2012/02/09/integrating-add-ons-into-firefox/>
Distribution.ini
<http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/26/customizing-firefox-distribution-ini/>
Default Preferences Files
<http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/15/customizing-firefox-default-preference-files/>
Autoconfig Files
<http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/16/customizing-firefox-autoconfig-files/>
Default Profiles
<http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/30/customizing-firefox-default-profiles/>
Those articles provide at least two native Firefox methods for each of
my goals (propagating settings and also add-ons).
Kaply also recently released CCK2, which replaces the CCK I found was no
longer available (from my original post). I understand CCK2 to be an
add-on that provides a front-end for the methods described in his
articles like the ones above.
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