Would dearly love to see command-line arguments to set up user installation and default identity items, especially the local-folders area name, username, and password! If that could be done, Thunderbird could be easily pushed to a whole Windows domain :)
--Jonathanbrickman0000 14:07, 15 December 2006 (PST)
command line arguments to uninstall firefox 2.0
Can anyone give me some pointers on this?
I need to do a silent uninstallation of firefox through the fir. What script can I run for this?
- /S works for both Robert Strong 02:14, 25 August 2007 (PDT)
Thanks LOTS
Can't help you with this, but I have a question about the config.ini file. I have set CloseAppNoPrompt=true, but when updating Fx 2.0.0.1 to version 2.0.0.2, the install does NOT close Fx if "Warn me when I attempt to close multiple tabs" has not been un-checked. Is there another value I could use? (force, always close etc)
- Regretfully there is no way to do this without killing the process and we are removing that capability from the installer for Firefox 3.0 so it will always prompt. Robert Strong 02:14, 25 August 2007 (PDT)
?? Robert Why would you want to remove a feature that allows for corporate deployment. If you remove this feature, then corporations that have to deploy the update will have to kill the firefox.exe processes themselves.
- Because there is no way for the installer to do so across user sessions and the installer now supports installing files on OS restart Robert Strong 17:02, 24 June 2008 (PDT)
Does that really work?
I tried the /S and -ms options. But the stock Firefox setup.exe's as distributed ignore these? Am I understanding something wrong? What is the secret to get this working?
- Using Firefox 2.0 this works for me. Robert Strong 02:14, 25 August 2007 (PDT)
Doesn't work at all for now!
The /D and /INI switches don't seem to work at all. I tried the following line in an install.cmd file: "%~dp0Firefox Setup 2.0.0.11.exe" /S /D="D:\Browsers\Firefox" /INI="%~dp0Firefox.ini"
The /S switch seemed to work: it was silent. However, FF installed into it's default directory on C:\, not into D:\Browsers\Firefox. That path was also specified in the .ini file.
The page says that if /INI is specified, the installer always runs in silent mode. This was not the case. I had to add /S. Rduke15 03:25, 9 January 2008 (PST)
more on /D not working...
things seem to work ok for me on windowns xp using the options
firefox-installer.exe /S /D \path_to_install_directory
(note no equal sign as in /D=\path... or the way it is show in some of the documentation)
After many attempts on Vista I can't seem to get the /D option to work. It just installs to c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox... or what ever the default setting is. I tried to make sure every path permission, security & sharing settings were opened up for the max flexibility but that didn't seem to help.
INI file question?
Do I remove the ; at the begining of the line with the switch to make it work and leave it to not enable the switch?
Thanks in advance.
S