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http://www.frontmotion.com/FMFirefoxCE/index.htm

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You may want to check this out. Not sure if it would meet your needs or what all it provides (I haven't tried it yet). It's a repackaged Firefox which works with GPOs by FrontMotion.

Well, here's something that may help. We use this to deploy FF in our AD environment.

FF Community Edition

Has no one heard of FrontMotion Firefox Community Edition?

MSI builds of Firefox: http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/fmfirefox.htm
They're configurable with Group Policy, or at least that's what the website says.

Of course, you'll need to get your SMS admin to agree to this.

You can manage Firefox and IE in a Active Directory and lock down both with GPO. To do this you can use FrontMotion's Firefox CE that is GPO aware and can be locked down to use a proxy or a certain default homepage. We use it at our University in the labs and it works great. Link: http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/fmfirefox.htm

OK I'm going to collect all the information I've found on this topic into this post for posterity.

Bugzila bug discussing Firefox MSI installer. Discusses Mozilla's view on things and what different people want in order to deploy Firefox on large scale desktops.

Instructions on how to package official Firefox releases into an MSI.

UK University admin blog talking about Firefox and System Administration. Talks about deployment of Firefox on enterprise desktops, issues with GPO and links to projects and resources and pros and cons with various packaging attempts.

3rd Party Frontmotion Firefox MSI installer. Pros - readily available. Cons - from a 3rd party (trustworthiness, how long will it be supported for, will they start charging...)

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Frontmotion produce an msi file that ca be roled out using active directory. File available here Features: * Active Directory deployable and upgradeable. * Desktop Icon and Shell integration similar to IE. * Set Default browser as an option (INSTALLLEVEL=1000) * Macromedia Flash plug-in preinstalled * Detect and upgrades non-MSI installs. * Can upgrade 3rd party MSI's from patpaul/MIT, Webheat.co.uk, and ZettaServe. * Able to properly perform uninstalls and restores system associations

http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

Not official from Mozilla, but well-maintained and not a hack. I wouldn't dismiss it because it's not "official"; the whole point of open-source is third parties being able to do things with the code.

A quick search for "firefox msi" gives this site as a result for what you are looking for. I could have sworn that Mozilla posted MSI's for Firefox nowadays, but I guess I was wrong.

Here ya go.
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/index.htm

Let's not forget that you can also install firefox via active directory and even have it managable now.

When I pressed them, their response was "with IE, even if there are 100 patches released every week - at least we have an automated way to distribute them to the thousands of systems in the corp. With Firefox, there is _no_ way to do this - so a single vulnerability puts us at a much greater risk"

There are .msi builds for Firefox that your IT people could use to deploy automatically. See http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/index.htm

For those wondering why this particular version, it is the latest to support FULL msi options http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=1380 33 as listed on the official mozillazine forums.

However if the people at DELL had of just gone one more click to the guys full site, they would see the latest MSIs built ready for pre-install or corp rollout needs http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/.

Big thanks to "DraconPern" for doing this, OEMer i been working at has been rolling this onto default install for around 14 months now, not had one gripe about bloatware, and quite a few thankyous from people for saveing them the effort :)

I have been using http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/ for about 7 months for a network of ~50 systems. I use this with FirefoxADM for some basic browser configuration. There will be the "ADM XPI for Firefox 1.5" which from my brief understanding will integrate Firefox config w/registry and allow for tighter group policy management.

It would definitely be nice to have an official MSI package (as it would attract many more admins) coupled with something like ADM XPI .. *hopefully* that will happen.. I thought I read that 1.5 would have an official MSI but couldn't find a reference.

There you go..
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/
MSI installers for Mozilla Firefox! Useful for installing Firefox on a single computer for the home user or deploy across thousands of computers automatically with Microsoft's Active Directory. Use Firefox on your corporate computers to decrease virus incidents and increase overall security. Save time and frustration with our installer that is targeted toward the corporate IT administrator with manageability and upgradeability in mind. This is not just a wrapper around the exe installer nor is it another half baked 'captured' install.

Posts like this bother me. They really do. Here is someone who for the sake of arguement really is someone in IT who works with large corporations and has the authority to roll Firefox out.

One of the things he desperately needs to get Firefox out there is an MSI installer version.

Any yet he couldn't be bothered to type "firefox msi" into google where he'd fine exactly what he is looking for. I know Firefox isn't perfect, but come on don't go putting up artifical barriers to it when a solution is so easily at hand.

Very FIRST hit on google when you search for "firefox msi"

http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

It's not quite official, but FrontMotion offers MSI files of Firefox and Thunderbird for free which can be deployed with almost any software management solution, including Group Policies
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

psexec @computerstodeploy.txt -u user -p pass firefoxsetup.exe -ms

Also check http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

Yes. It's the "Software Settings" section under both Computer and User in Group Policy. It requires (AFAIK) an actual MSI, not one packed into a "setup.exe". It allows publication to Add/Remove Programs by user, and assignment for users or computers. You can also set upgrades there, as well as transforms.

Check these guys out as well. Their Firefox MSI works fine through GPO.

As I mentioned, you need a silent install. For F., there's different ways to do that:

1. Use FrontMotion's MSI for Firefox
2. Follow the instructions and created your own MSI using MakeMSI (which is free as in beer, not speech)
3. Follow the instructions on Unattended's wiki and roll a silent install from the .exe

Found this through google:

http://frontmotion.com/Firefox/

They still haven't worked out the GPO quite yet, but it's definately promising.

If you want to continue to use windows and windows deployment tools, there is an msi package for firefox.

FirefoxADM is a way of allowing centrally managed locked and/or default settings in Firefox via Group Policy and Administrative Templates in Active Directory Latest news about FirefoxADM at http://spaces.msn.com/members/in-cider/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm

Unoffical Firefox MSI builds can be found at
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

Official Firefox Msi installers will be avaible in the 1.1 release nightly msi builds can be found at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig htly/latest-trunk/ the nighlies are not ready for general use yet, but are availbe for testing.

This website has downloadable MSI packages that will integrate Firefox into AD and GPO, as well as a howto.

This thread will show you how to do the same for OO.o, but only for the 2.0 beta version.

Unfortunately, IE is updated with the Automatic Windows Updates, while Firefox is only updated by us when a new Windows template is rolled out on all the computers every 6 months or so.

Some Firefox MSIs are available:

• http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/
• http://www.webheat.co.uk/firefox.php
• http://msi-repository.sourceforge.net/

On Windows, you can install from the MSI file that Frontmotion package.

The Mozilla Foundation says an MSI installer blocks the 1.1 release.

Can't you people use html? :-)

Firefox MSI
GPO support for Firefox

Check out FrontMotion's Firefox MSI page for an excellent 3rd party MSI for Firefox (currently at 1.0.2 but regularly updated).

Otherwise, it's a stated goal for 1.1 to have an official MSI installer.

Actually, you CAN install it on a windows network and manage it.. see:
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

All updates and policy changes on this level are made either with MSI packages that are pushed out at 3 AM each night, or by just changing the group policy to allow it. They use WISE professional studio to do silent installs of all packages.

I posted it to the NOP PSU mailing list, and I'll post it here again. Firefox MSI Packages

Finkployd

...some of you may like this program for windows. the themes are all flash based and it is basically an alternative to the windows login screen. it works for win2k too!

http://frontmotion.com/

I know it's not from the Mozilla Firefox team, but here is the msi you're looking for.

clickety click

Wish #1 presumably in progress as I type.

No problem... btw, for some reason they haven't updated the web page to reflect this yet, but they do have an MSI for 1.0 final. Here's a direct link:

MSI package for Firefox 1.0 final

Enjoy :-)

This may not be as far away as you think:

MSI packages for Firefox

You can share your requirements for better network deployability in Bug ID # 231062 in Bugzilla (I'm not gonna link directly to the bug since Bugzilla just blocks traffic from Slashdot anyway). That would help the devs improve the packages and get you the sort of thing you're talking about.