Deployment:Deploying Firefox

Deploying Firefox

Many people are using Firefox at home, and many also want to use it at work or see it on public computers such as at libraries or Internet Cafes. This article describes how to deploy Firefox in a corporate environment, at both small and large business, as well as at colleges and universities.

Firefox CCK

The Firefox Client Customization Kit (CCK) was designed as a successor to two Netscape products, CCK, and Mission Control Desktop (MCD). These two products were used to customize Netscape browsers for deployment for ISPs (CCK) and enterprises (MCD).

The goal of the Firefox CCK is to provide an extension that can be deployed with Firefox that does most basic customizations.

More information is available at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox.

Installer Options

Large Oranizations have a variety of software deployment systems. In most cases the Firefox installation package can be wrapped inside these deployment systems. Some groups have packaged the firefox installer inside a MSI package to do their deployments. The firefox installation program can be wrapped inside these deployment systems. Two installer options are valuable in these set ups.

FirefoxSetup.exe /ms (for mode-silent)

or

FirefoxSetup.exe /ma (auto-mode, hands-free but visible)

Another installation option ( /ira ) might be useful in these scenarios as it keeps the program from running after the install has completed.

Deployment Tools

Automated deployment of Firefox with extensions, themes, and pre-configuration http://firefox.dbltree.com/

Firefox ADM (Active Directory deployment) Manage Firefox settings through Group Policy and Active Directory. http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/mcs/FirefoxADM/Readme.htm

Companies

List of companies who can help with your deployment of Firefox or Thunderbird.

Wayforth - London, UK