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Firefox Plug-ins

  • June 18, 2008
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Does anyone know how to install plug-ins (Add-ons) for Firefox using Casper? It seems like the path that Firefox uses to store the plug- ins is: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ xxxxxxxx.default/extensions/ [where: xxxxxxx = randomly generated alpha-numeric string] The fact that it is randomly generated for each user makes the mass deployment seemingly impossible.

Thanks,
Eric Anderson
Director of Information Technology
Archbishop Mitty High School

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    • tlarkin
    • Honored Contributor
    • June 18, 2008

    I just use composer and build a new package all together, configure and
    secure the add ons I want and take a final snap shot, then add in a pre
    install script to remove all previous settings of firefox

    rm -rf /Applications/FireFox.app

    rm -rf /Users/*/Application Support/Firefox

    Once those folders are removed you can deploy a nice new clean package. I did this last school and upgraded from firefox 1.x to firefox 2.x and
    it worked just fine.

    Thomas Larkin
    TIS Department
    KCKPS USD500
    tlarki at kckps.org
    cell: 913-449-7589
    office: 913-627-0351

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    • ernstcs
    • Contributor
    • June 18, 2008

    You also don't need to be stuck with the randomly generated profile name if you build the profile into your package and are filling user templates.

    In ~/Library/Application Support/FireFox you can edit the profile.ini and change the Path= to whatever you want so it's the same. So I'd use UWEC.default.

    Then I'd go into the profiles folder and rename the default one there to match.

    This way I now can predict what the path should be later when you want to add-on just an extension or what not. Must be doing Firefox 3? =)

    Craig

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