Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-09-05 Thread Timo Pietilä
.msi is just a installation packaging method that standardizes ARP entries, uninstallation, upgrades, adds self-repair and so on. If used properly it makes things *easier* to Mozilla, not harder. You can of course do all that with exe too, but msi also allows customers to modify installation e

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-23 Thread James M. Pulver
I'm saying I don't want the CCK to go away, unless Mozilla is going to also have ESR consume GPOs somehow on the other OSs. I.e. I don't want to do 3x the work configuring the same settings in 3 different UIs and manually syncing changes. James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-23 Thread Mikko Järvinen
rprise-boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of > Jason Jackson > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 10:16 PM > To: enterprise@mozilla.org > Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of > Firefox > > Yes, let's not forget that MSI is Windows only. With CCK2,

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-22 Thread Gustafsson Martin (SEIT)
AURITZ AB. IT DEPARTMENT. -Original Message- From: Enterprise [mailto:enterprise-boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Jason Jackson Sent: den 22 augusti 2017 21:16 To: enterprise@mozilla.org Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox Yes, let's not

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-22 Thread Jason Jackson
er Systems Technician North Vancouver School District > -Original Message- > From: Enterprise [mailto:enterprise-boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of > James M. Pulver > Sent: August 22, 2017 11:50 AM > To: enterprise@mozilla.org > Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request f

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-22 Thread James M. Pulver
Personally, I like the current setup once I got Puppet going. The reason is consistent configuration for Windows, Linux and Mac. I wouldn't want to do 2 or more attempts to apply the same configuration across the platforms, at that point, I lose a lot of benefit from Firefox. James Pulver CLAS

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-22 Thread Alexandre Gauvrit
+1 If finally Mozilla would release an official Firefox MSI package, it would be good to follow previous comments on the real goals of an MSI package. * deploy Firefox through GPO for medium to big structures * manage Firefox system preferences (default proxy, extensions, security settin

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-21 Thread Luca Manganelli
Il 21/08/2017 15:53, Mikko Järvinen ha scritto: If Mozilla is going to provide msi packages of their products the whole process must be seamlessly integrated into the automated build process. Every single resource, like files and registry settings, must belong into a one and only one Windows In

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-21 Thread Mikko Järvinen
g] On Behalf Of Gustafsson Martin (SEIT) Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 10:06 AM To: enterprise@mozilla.org Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox Hi Ledru! I just did a quick check of the MSI and, with all due respect, custom action wrapping an .exe-fi

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-21 Thread Gustafsson Martin (SEIT)
; Michael Kaply Subject: [Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox Hello, Thanks to all the answers to the survey that we received, we have decided to investigate what a Firefox MSI installer could look like. We made a simple MSI wrapper of Firefox 52.2.0 installer. It is

[Mozilla Enterprise] Request for feedback: a MSI installer of Firefox

2017-08-16 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, Thanks to all the answers to the survey that we received, we have decided to investigate what a Firefox MSI installer could look like. We made a simple MSI wrapper of Firefox 52.2.0 installer. It is available on this URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9mXnKFQuivXd19YT1NhNHpVRkk/v