Firefox:2.0 Institutional Deployment

Introduction

This document describes the feature requirements for corporate/enterprise deployment which includes large businesses (>10,000 users), small business, colleges and universities, etc.

The next section assumes you're running in a windows environment:

Deploying the software is easy:
either through re-imaging, or
push this .msi file
via Active Directory GPO
or scripts, landesk etc...

Things that you will run into are:

• deployment of options for Firefox
• deployment of extensions/themes
• deployment of settings for extensions
• locking down all/some of the settings

Different configurations of your network can be:

• no roaming profiles

Firefox's default behavior is sticking the extensions/preferences into the local users profile with a unique identifier. What is needed is a way to control/lock down the options at the server (via AD).

I'm documenting this as I'm doing it ... I'm trying to stick the extensions in the ALL Users section or the slightly worse Default user's section.

Useful tools

FirefoxADM - Mark Sammons has given to the world a tool to be used in Active Directory environments called FirefoxADM. It allows Active Directory administrators to control Firefox Options in much the same way as you would IE. For more information on FirefoxADM, see the blog for the zip file: Download link

FFDeploy - Bob Templeton has created a tool for deploying profiles.

Functional Capability & Usability

Focus Area & Work Items	Release	Priority
Places (An Updated Approach to Bookmarks & History)
Firefox:Places:Scratch Pad	2.0	P2
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