I've been trying to get uBlock Origin installed for my users, running
Firefox 52.6 ESR on Debian. I successfully have a silent-install
happening on by:
- placing the .xpi as
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/distribution/extensions/ublo...@raymondhill.net.xpi
on all our systems, and making sure every user has read permissions to
that file
- rm -r ~/.mozilla
- starting Firefox as an unprivileged user, which copies uBlock into
~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE/extensions/ublo...@raymondhill.net.xpi
It was a bit tricky to figure out, especially because you can't really
test it without wiping away your profile completely, but it seems to
be reliable now.
I have pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 3); set in
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/firefox.js, which
came with Debian's firefox-esr package, but if I didn't have that I
would have had to add a file to that folder, say
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/extensions.js, with
// Necessary comment
pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 3);
// necessary newline:
(this is described at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Enterprise_deployment#Configuration
but those docs are pretty confusing and seem to be at least partly out
of date).
Now I have a new challenge: I want to define uBlock's default
blocklists; its default list is alright, but I want to crank up the
adblocking in order to save our poor machines' RAM.
Marco Gaiarin <g...@sv.lnf.it> wrote:
> Some addons (i've found only ABP, Ad-Block Plus for now) need some
> post-activation explicit setup (eg, ABP need to ask what blocklist
> download), and you have to do that, user by user, or sometimes setup
> some pre-cooked settings (js) files.
My installed uBlock has made
~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE/browser-extension-data/ublo...@raymondhill.net/storage.js,
which seems to contain all its preferences. If I manually re-copy
storage.js to the same place in a fresh profile, uBlock picks it up
and has my fuller blacklist defined.
I tried copying browser-extension-data/ to
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/distribution/ (and making sure the permissions
are correct and making sure to wipe my profiles each time) but Firefox
ignores it.
So, my question is: is there a canonical way to hand out add-on configuration?
For addons that use the Firefox preference system, it's easy: just add
files to /usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/defaults/preferences/. But it
seems that Firefox has been heading towards more and more isolation --
which is a good thing -- while forgetting that extensions have
settings too. I'm stumped.
I would really rather not write a cronjob that syncs storage.js into
every home folder every 10 minutes. There's got to be a better way.
Thank you for your time and any clues you can toss my way,
--
Nick Guenther
Soutiens Technique
IT Support
Santropol Roulant Inc
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