1) I don't like FrontMotion's MSIs - they have too many differences
between the official mozilla.org binaries and distributions - included
plugins and what not. Therefore, I make my own. Takes about 15 minutes.
I also make my own MSIs for Thunderbird and Seamonkey. My MSIs mirror
the setup procedure followed by the official installers as closely as
possible.
2) That much is easy once you get MSIs for deployment ;)
3) There are ways of doing it; a guy by the name of Mark Sammons created
some JavaScript that can be put in the FireFox startup scripts that will
read the registry settings from {HKCU,HKLM}\Software\Policies and apply
them to the Firefox configuration.
This is the procedure FrontMotion uses; my MSIs have the same JavaScript.
The Firefox Corporate Project (http://fxcorp.sanduskycomputers.com/ -
web site down, I have the files archived) created some much more
advanced adm templates. Sadly, they are incomplete.
Unfortunately, all of that broke when FF 3 was in beta, I haven't tried
it with the final release.
Liu, David wrote:
> Question for those who are deploying FF in the enterprise:
>
> 1. how are you managing FF upgrades, via GPO? Unless you plan on
> repackaging FF on your own, FrontMotion is not always up to date in
> terms of msi's.
>
> 2. from security perspective, IEs can be patched internally via WSUS
> quite readily with the push of a few buttons. Patching FF on the other
> hand is not so easy and FF vulnerabilities in the last year has become
> more & more frequent. Granted there are equal if not more holes in IE
> but at least we know that once released via WU or WSUS it can be
> deployed easily.
>
> 3. In terms of ability to centrally administer/config browser FF, its
> also quite lacking. The config adm from Frontmotion is not quite as
> extensive as the ie adms's. I'm surprised that there is no config
> settings for setting FF bookmarks & allowing admins to dynamically
> update them & push them out to users.
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