@mm2270 still no luck with Reader, but Dropbox and Cyberducky work flawlessly.

Side note, any chance you're working on a way to install multiple at once? This would be quite a time saver as a script to run when we image machines.

Hi all,

Here is a shell script to install or update Firefox: here

Same for Adobe Reader: here
Or Adobe AIR: here

Hope it helps ;)
Kind regards
joe

@joe.farage, I love your Adobe Air and Reader scripts, so thanks! Any chance you have the Firefox one for ESR? I've been trying to modify your script with no luck so far.

@pearlin You can take a look at my script here which can do similar things for a variety of products, although not for Adobe Air at the moment.

I will be releasing a pretty major rewrite of this script pretty soon, that will have a bunch of new features. Its in beta testing right now with a few folks, so if you decide you'd like to use it and want to participate to help catch any issues, be sure to request that.

@mm2270, thanks, I'm definitely interested in helping out!

@pearlin Can you send me an email at mm2270 [at] me [dot] com? I can get you the beta script to test with sometime later today along with a list of the changes made to it.

Hi all, hi @pearlin

Here is the deployment script for Firefox ESR. Enjoy ;)

#!/bin/sh

#####################################################################################################

#

# ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

#

# NAME

#   FirefoxESRInstall.sh -- Installs or updates Firefox ESR

#

# SYNOPSIS

#   sudo FirefoxInstallESR.sh

#

####################################################################################################

#

# HISTORY

#

#   Version: 1.0

#

#   - Joe Farage, 23.03.2015

#

####################################################################################################

# Script to download and install Firefox.

# Only works on Intel systems.

#

# choose language (en-US, fr, de). Default language: en-US

lang=""

# CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 1 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "lang"

if [ "$4" != "" ] && [ "$lang" == "" ]; then

    lang=$4

else 

    lang="en-US"

fi



dmgfile="FF_ESR.dmg"

logfile="/Library/Logs/FirefoxESRInstallScript.log"



# Are we running on Intel?

if [ '`/usr/bin/uname -p`'="i386" -o '`/usr/bin/uname -p`'="x86_64" ]; then

    ## Get OS version and adjust for use with the URL string

    OSvers_URL=$( sw_vers -productVersion | sed 's/[.]/_/g' )



    ## Set the User Agent string for use with curl

    userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X ${OSvers_URL}) AppleWebKit/535.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.2 Safari/535.6.2"



    # Get the latest version of Firefox ESR available from Firefox page.

    latestver=`/usr/bin/curl -s -A "$userAgent" https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/latest-esr/mac/${lang}/ | grep 'Firefox%20.*esr.dmg' | sed 's/.*Firefox%20//' | sed 's/esr.dmg.*//' | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}'`

    echo "Language: $lang"

    echo "Latest Version is: $latestver"



    # Get the version number of the currently-installed FF, if any.

    if [ -e "/Applications/Firefox.app" ]; then

        currentinstalledver=`/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info CFBundleShortVersionString`

        echo "Current installed version is: $currentinstalledver"

        if [ ${latestver} = ${currentinstalledver} ]; then

            echo "Firefox is current. Exiting"

            exit 0

        fi

    else

        currentinstalledver="none"

        echo "Firefox is not installed"

    fi



    url="https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/latest-esr/mac/${lang}/Firefox%20${latestver}esr.dmg"



    echo "Latest version of the URL is: $url"

    echo "`date`: Download URL: $url" >> ${logfile}



    # Compare the two versions, if they are different or Firefox is not present then download and install the new version.

    if [ "${currentinstalledver}" != "${latestver}" ]; then

        /bin/echo "`date`: Current Firefox version: ${currentinstalledver}" >> ${logfile}

        /bin/echo "`date`: Available Firefox version: ${latestver}" >> ${logfile}

        /bin/echo "`date`: Downloading newer version." >> ${logfile}

        /usr/bin/curl -s -o /tmp/${dmgfile} ${url}

        /bin/echo "`date`: Mounting installer disk image." >> ${logfile}

        /usr/bin/hdiutil attach /tmp/${dmgfile} -nobrowse -quiet

        /bin/echo "`date`: Installing..." >> ${logfile}

        ditto -rsrc "/Volumes/Firefox/Firefox.app" "/Applications/Firefox.app"



        /bin/sleep 10

        /bin/echo "`date`: Unmounting installer disk image." >> ${logfile}

        /usr/bin/hdiutil detach $(/bin/df | /usr/bin/grep Firefox | awk '{print $1}') -quiet

        /bin/sleep 10

        /bin/echo "`date`: Deleting disk image." >> ${logfile}

        /bin/rm /tmp/${dmgfile}



        #double check to see if the new version got updated

        newlyinstalledver=`/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info CFBundleShortVersionString`

        if [ "${latestver}" = "${newlyinstalledver}" ]; then

            /bin/echo "`date`: SUCCESS: Firefox has been updated to version ${newlyinstalledver}" >> ${logfile}

       # /Library/Application Support/JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper -windowType hud -title "Firefox Installed" -description "Firefox has been updated." &

        else

            /bin/echo "`date`: ERROR: Firefox update unsuccessful, version remains at ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile}

            /bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile}

            exit 1

        fi



    # If Firefox is up to date already, just log it and exit.       

    else

        /bin/echo "`date`: Firefox is already up to date, running ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile}

        /bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile}

    fi  

else

    /bin/echo "`date`: ERROR: This script is for Intel Macs only." >> ${logfile}

fi



exit 0

@joe.farage Is there an easy way to add support for multiple languages based on what language the OS is using?

the ftp site is giving a 404 error now. I had to edit a similar script that had been working until recently.
here it is.

#!/bin/sh

# updateFirefox.sh

#to determine if there's a update for Firefox and, if there is, deploy it

#

#to show script startup in maint_logfile

echo 'start updateFirefox.sh'

#



date

#



ffv=$(/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -v)

set -- $ffv

ffvn=$3

echo "Installed Firefox version is $ffvn"



# somehow find current version

curl -O FireFox*.dmg "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=osx&lang=en-US" > /scripts/firefox.txt



# parse text file to find dmg file name and version

nffvf=$(grep dmg /scripts/firefox.txt | sed 's/.*href="(.*.dmg).>.*/1/')

nffv=$(grep dmg /scripts/firefox.txt | sed 's/.*releases.(.*).mac.*/1/')



echo "Latest Firefox version is $nffv"

if  [[ "$ffvn" < "$nffv" ]] ; then

    echo Updating Firefox to $nffv from $ffvn

    #download actual dmg file

    echo Getting "$nffvf"

    sudo curl -o /scripts/Firefox.dmg "$nffvf"

    #mount dmg

    sudo hdiutil mount "/scripts/Firefox.dmg"

    if [ $? = 0 ]; then   # if mount is successful

        #remove previous version of firefox

        sudo rm -rd /Applications/Firefox.app

        #install new version

        sudo cp -R /Volumes/Firefox/Firefox.app /Applications

        sleep 15

        #Unmount

        sudo hdiutil detach /Volumes/Firefox

#        sudo hdiutil unmount /Volumes/Firefox

        sleep 5

    fi

    #remove files

    sudo rm /scripts/Firefox.dmg



fi

sudo rm /scripts/firefox.txt

echo 'end updateFirefox.sh'

exit 0

edit out the sudo commands, they are not needed when run under the policy

start updateFirefox.sh
Mon 25 Jan 2016 11:05:04 GMT
Installed Firefox version is 42.0
test.sh: line 18: /scripts/firefox.txt: No such file or directory
grep: /scripts/firefox.txt: No such file or directory
grep: /scripts/firefox.txt: No such file or directory
Latest Firefox version is
rm: /scripts/firefox.txt: No such file or directory
end updateFirefox.sh

changed the path to /tmp

#!/bin/sh

# updateFirefox.sh

#to determine if there's a update for Firefox and, if there is, deploy it

#

#to show script startup in maint_logfile

echo 'start updateFirefox.sh'

#



date

#



ffv=$(/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -v)

set -- $ffv

ffvn=$3

echo "Installed Firefox version is $ffvn"



# somehow find current version

curl -O FireFox*.dmg "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest&os=osx&lang=en-US" > /tmp/firefox.txt



# parse text file to find dmg file name and version

nffvf=$(grep dmg /tmp/firefox.txt | sed 's/.*href="(.*.dmg).>.*/1/')

nffv=$(grep dmg /tmp/firefox.txt | sed 's/.*releases.(.*).mac.*/1/')



echo "Latest Firefox version is $nffv"

if  [[ "$ffvn" < "$nffv" ]] ; then

echo Updating Firefox to $nffv from $ffvn

#download actual dmg file

echo Getting "$nffvf"

curl -o /tmp/Firefox.dmg "$nffvf"



#mount dmg

hdiutil mount -nobrowse "/tmp/Firefox.dmg"

if [ $? = 0 ]; then   # if mount is successful



#remove previous version of firefox

if [ -d /Applicarions/Firefox.app ]; then

rm -rd /Applications/Firefox.app

fi



#install new version

cp -R /Volumes/Firefox/Firefox.app /Applications

sleep 15

#Unmount

hdiutil detach /Volumes/Firefox

sleep 5

    fi



#remove files

rm /tmp/Firefox.dmg



fi

rm /tmp/firefox.txt

echo 'end updateFirefox.sh'

exit 0

I don't know if this would help at all being that it's a bit of an older thread but I found this page after digging around: https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/latest/README.txt

Firefox actually tells you how to use wget to download the file, however that only works if you have wget installed on your machine. I was able to cobble together this cURL command to download the file:

curl -GL -o Firefox.dmg -d "product=firefox-latest&os=osx&lang=en-US" https://download.mozilla.org/

I figured this would help is you're not using the ESR version and simply using the public version.

I took the script and wrapped it up in a Platypus app so users can see the output/progress. I also added a

sleep 10

at the end to give users a chance to see the final status before it automatically closed.
I then pushed the app to /Applications/Utilities/ and built a Policy to run

/Applications/Utilities/Firefox_Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Firefox Update

since it needs elevated rights to install the updates. Seems to work like a champ. I'm trying to find a downside to this though. Is there really?

@AVmcclint The only downside I could see is that if your company removes admin rights to their users then you'd have to temporarily elevate their permissions while the scripts run so that they can perform the update. I'm only thinking about that probably bc my company is looking to do that to a select group of users. Other than that, I can't think of a downside.

My users don't have admin rights. That's why I'm launching the app from a Policy so it runs as root.

@AVmcclint Duh. I should've thought of that. Ha. I was in the same mind set that Google runs their updater. You have to run it as the local user as it will bomb out complaining that it's being run by root. If FF lets the root user run the updater that's awesome! Then I retract my previous statement...I see no downside to this. :)

From what I can tell about this script is that it is completely independent of the Firefox application. One line in the script deletes the pre-existing copy of Firefox from /Applications. I added a line for pkill firefox before the bulk of the script runs too to make sure there isn't any running processes that could object to being replaced.

So where is everyone with this? I had a FF ESR update script working last Spring, based on mm2270's wonderful work, but it quit working (I assume the problem with the FTP site?). All I want is something simple to put in Self Service for my users (non-admins) to be able to run on demand to update FF. Anyone have a working script for that with 10.11.6? I have had really bad luck with AutoPKG, so please stick with script-based solutions.

I'm using the script above with the modifications I noted. I did have to recently modify the script and redeploy it as a Self Service Policy so that it could get through our new web proxy. I'm not getting the ESR release, I'm only getting the regular public release you can download yourself from getfirefox.com. It seems to work well.

Has anyone had trouble installing the ESR version over the top of a non-ESR version? I have a policy deploying ESR, but it doesn't want to replace the newer non-ESR version. I even set a custom trigger, and tried on my machine. Firefox wasn't open. I had version 49.0.2 installed. When the policy fired, it said it was successful, but checking the version info, it still said 49.0.2, and not 45.5.0.

Anyone seen this before?

So I've applied an edit to use the Public releases for FireFox and the script seems to work great since the end result is an updated working version, but I get a curl error. Even with the following error everything seems to work. (I just don't like seeing errors though).

curl: Remote file name has no length!
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information

Any ideas? Below is my full script built on the shoulders of @tkimpton built on the back of @dlang etc,etc,:

#!/bin/sh

# updateFirefox.sh

#to determine if there's a update for Firefox and, if there is, deploy it

#

#to show script startup in maint_logfile

echo 'start updateFirefox.sh'

#



date

#



ffv=$(/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -v)

set -- $ffv

ffvn=$3

echo "Installed Firefox version is $ffvn"



# somehow find current version

curl -O FireFox*.dmg "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=osx&lang=en-US" > /tmp/firefox.txt



# parse text file to find dmg file name and version

nffvf=$(grep dmg /tmp/firefox.txt | sed 's/.*href="(.*.dmg).>.*/1/')

nffv=$(grep dmg /tmp/firefox.txt | sed 's/.*releases.(.*).mac.*/1/')



echo "Latest Firefox version is $nffv"

if  [[ "$ffvn" < "$nffv" ]] ; then

echo Updating Firefox to $nffv from $ffvn

#download actual dmg file

echo Getting "$nffvf"

curl -o /tmp/Firefox.dmg "$nffvf"



#mount dmg

hdiutil mount -nobrowse "/tmp/Firefox.dmg"

if [ $? = 0 ]; then   # if mount is successful



#remove previous version of firefox

if [ -d /Applicarions/Firefox.app ]; then

rm -rd /Applications/Firefox.app

fi



#install new version

cp -R /Volumes/Firefox/Firefox.app /Applications

sleep 15

#Unmount

hdiutil detach /Volumes/Firefox

sleep 5

    fi



#remove files

rm /tmp/Firefox.dmg



fi

rm /tmp/firefox.txt

echo 'end updateFirefox.sh'

exit 0

Gabe Shackney
Princeton Public Schools

Just my two cents, but I use this as my cURL command:

curl -GL -o Firefox.dmg -d "product=firefox-latest&os=osx&lang=en-US" https://download.mozilla.org/

I've have great luck then you don't need to worry about the version number of the current install for the sake of the cURL command, at least.

Isn't the curl command though in my script writing the version number to a file to double check vs the installed version? Thats a part I like as a reference.

Gabe Shackney
Princeton Public Schools

I have an new script working.
You can download it from git hub:
firefox-esr-install.py

If you try it please let me know how it goes!

Thanks!