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silent installation firefox. msi firefox. windows domain group policy for firefox

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good day. I'm working in big company and consulting in some other company I think that now firefox as the best browser. So I want that users of my companies works in firefox.

So I ask you to send me the information about:

do firefox have any silent installation variants? will firefox do *.msi installtion files? If no - why? do firefox have some Windows domain group policies?

good day. I'm working in big company and consulting in some other company I think that now firefox as the best browser. So I want that users of my companies works in firefox. So I ask you to send me the information about: do firefox have any silent installation variants? will firefox do *.msi installtion files? If no - why? do firefox have some Windows domain group policies?

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Hi scheglov You will probably consider installing Firefox ESR so have a look at this page:

On this forum we concentrate mainly on end user problems rather than deployment issues.

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There are some solutions I know of for corporate deployments.

One is Frontmotion Firefox Community Edition which is a MSI installer with group policy support. Found here: http://www.frontmotion.com/

I also think the CCK2 addon can help here. Please check it out: https://mike.kaply.com/cck2/

It is supposed to have a option to help perform silent Firefox deployments. But I have a feeling it's more for customizing Firefox before a deployment. Either way, it's a very powerful tool and it has a lot of features.

Let us know if that helped. :)

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To answer these questions: Do Firefox have any silent installation variants? Yes. /S & -ms. Please read these pages to learn how to use them: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments http://www.itninja.com/software/mozilla/firefox-2/38

But only the full installers support these commands. Stub installers do not. Example Stub installer: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-stub&os=win&lang=en-US If you download this type of build, you can not use the silent commands on it. The file will be named Firefox Setup Stub XX.x.exe. Example full installer: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-45.0&os=win&lang=en-US Filename will be Firefox Setup 45.0.exe and silent commands will work.

Full Installers are here: http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/

Will Firefox do *.msi installation files? If no - why? Firefox does not have any official MSI installers. The reason why is a very long story that dates all the way back to 2004. The short version is they could never agree on how to design and build a MSI installer in a "open source" way. Meanwhile Chrome was able to build theirs in 2010.

But there is hope. The man who wrote the very corporate & deployment friendly CCK2 addon is now working for Firefox. I believe one day he will be able to create a official MSI installer for Firefox. But he was just hired so it will take time.

Do Firefox have some Windows domain group policies? Official Firefox builds do not support group policies. But Frontmotion's customized Firefox builds do. Please use those for group policy support.

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