sethomepage command - firefox

[CasperSally]

I was looking for a way to set homepage (we have Firefox as our default) for all users on certain machines.

This command works perfectly... except it also opens a tab for http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.3/whatsnew

jamf setHomePage -fut -homepage http://website.com/

The extra tab wouldn't be a huge deal if we weren't wiping user local student home directories on logout, so students would see the "whatsnew" every time

Any command or anything I can do to combat this or should I look into building a new firefox package for these labs? JAMF folks suggested I ask you guys.

Thanks

[jarednichols]

The best bet will likely be to create your own xpi for Firefox. It's how we roll and you can include things like additional security certificates, set a custom contact in the "help" menu (to your help desk for instance) set any proxy settings, default home page etc… Read up here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Build_Documentation

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[zskidmor]

@jarednichols I built a custom extension to set home page, but how do you deploy it?, I attempted to use composer and build a DMG to use FUT and FUE but this doesn't work (I think it is because it copies a partial new Firefox profile since that is where the extension is actually stored after installation)