I used to repack Firefox and spent ages suppressing various dialog boxes and options then add the Mozilla.cfg, but now I have a different approach.
Essentially I create my own localization by changing the built in one (im too lazy to compile my own custom localization) Download full installer from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/ Extract using 7zip Edit the localized contents localized\Browserconfig.properties (default homepage) localized\defaults\pref\firefox-l10n.js (the preferences, equivalent of defaultPref) localized\dictionaries -> load the AU localized\searchplugins -> load our internal ones run "%pathtofirefox%\setup.exe -ms /INI=%pathtofirefox%\config.ini" lockedPrefs are deployed using a GPO Preference to add the Mozilla.cfg Silent updating is still borken and is an outstanding bug on bugzilla, but replicating the above is fairly simple for point releases. Michael Chinn PC Support Office Information and Communications Technology Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 2-68 Flinders Street PO Box 1379 Townsville Qld 4810 Ph: 07 4750 0855 Fax: 07 4772 6093 email: michael.ch...@gbrmpa.gov.au Visit us at: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au ============================================================================= If you have received this transmission in error please notify us immediately by return email and delete all copies. Any unauthorised use, disclosure or distribution of this email is prohibited. ============================================================================= -----Original Message----- From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Justin Brinegar Sent: 04 March 2010 04:43 To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox Proxy - unlocked lockPref and defaultPref are the way to go. Example of in-production usage: lockPref("signon.rememberSignons", false); // prevent passwords from being saved defaultPref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 1024); // 1mb of disk space for cache defaultPref("browser.cache.disk.enable", true); // enable the above defaultPref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", -1); // dynamic setting based on ram in machine defaultPref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true); // enable the above Do note that there are *some* preferences that simply will not lock, and there are some that will not default. Specifically, I encountered issues with defaulting the homepage in Firefox 3.5. In Thunderbird (and to a lesser extent in Firefox), there are groups of settings that must all be locked before settings will actually lock. This led to a non-intuitive approach for locking SMTP settings, among other interesting things. My point: you may have to lock/default more settings than you would initially think. I've locked down my deployment of Thunderbird and Firefox using locked and default preferences. You can do some pretty cool things with it in Thunderbird, especially if your organization uses a single-sign on technology and has an LDAP server. Justin Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > On 02.03.2010 12:56, Christian Becker wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to set the Proxy of Firefox. So I used the tutorial at wpkg.org >> <http://wpkg.org>. Works fine, but these are only "locked" settings. >> Is there a way to set Proxy - but unlocked - so that every user could >> change it individually? > > I think instead of "lockPref" you would have to use just "pref". > > But you may want to experiment a bit yourself. > -- Justin Brinegar .. brine...@physics.unc.edu .. (919) 962 - 6494 .. Assistant Windows Administrator .. Physics & Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing .. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
