Comments on: Firefox 3 RC1 http://remstate.com/2008/05/26/firefox-3-rc1/ Create the Internet of your Dreams Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:19:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Quandary http://remstate.com/2008/05/26/firefox-3-rc1/#comment-12400 Quandary Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:49:40 +0000 http://remstate.com/2008/05/26/firefox-3-rc1/#comment-12400 Yeah, seriously -- you'd think that the Mozilla folks would understand by now that off in Corporate Land, silent install is an <em>absolute</em> necessity. Cracking the home desktop is all well and good, but it's not like they can expect to keep growing if they don't think of the workplace as well. It shouldn't take as much effort as it did to figure this procedure out. As for deselecting the default browser option... I'm not <em>personally</em> interested in that one, but I presume that there's a registry setting that we could poke post-install. AFAIK, Firefox et. al. just call some Windows API to set the defaults. I might tinker with it later, if nobody beats me to it. :) Yeah, seriously — you’d think that the Mozilla folks would understand by now that off in Corporate Land, silent install is an absolute necessity. Cracking the home desktop is all well and good, but it’s not like they can expect to keep growing if they don’t think of the workplace as well. It shouldn’t take as much effort as it did to figure this procedure out.

As for deselecting the default browser option… I’m not personally interested in that one, but I presume that there’s a registry setting that we could poke post-install. AFAIK, Firefox et. al. just call some Windows API to set the defaults. I might tinker with it later, if nobody beats me to it. :)

]]> By: Sam http://remstate.com/2008/05/26/firefox-3-rc1/#comment-12393 Sam Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:56:15 +0000 http://remstate.com/2008/05/26/firefox-3-rc1/#comment-12393 Nice writeup - can't believe there's more info here than can be found at the mozilla site. As for disabling the import wizard, adding the following to your INI seems to do the trick: [XRE] EnableProfileMigrator=false Now I just want a switch that disables the 'make firefox your default browser' behaviour that the installer now performs by default. Any ideas? Why are programs becoming more and more invasive? At least Firefox doesn't force other stuff on you by default like Adobe's Flash Player + Google Toolbar, or Sun's Java + OpenOffice... yet. Nice writeup - can’t believe there’s more info here than can be found at the mozilla site.

As for disabling the import wizard, adding the following to your INI seems to do the trick:

[XRE]
EnableProfileMigrator=false

Now I just want a switch that disables the ‘make firefox your default browser’ behaviour that the installer now performs by default. Any ideas?

Why are programs becoming more and more invasive? At least Firefox doesn’t force other stuff on you by default like Adobe’s Flash Player + Google Toolbar, or Sun’s Java + OpenOffice… yet.

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