Installing FIREFOX with extensions/addons manually? (not really auto install)
- by BrownChiLD
I've been reading around with regards to creating firefox installers, bundling it w/ addons, using scripts, and CLI lines and a whole bunch of stuffs ... but it seems that going through this route is just too complicated and time consuming..
Since i don't mind a bit of manually copying files and stuff, I was planning to do the following:
on my test machine,
1) install firefox on a machine AND configure it the way i want it
2) install addons AND set the configurations for it
3) set advanced configurations for firefox (about:config)
Then once i'm all set, I just simply copy the contents of the firefox/profiles folder (for this particular tests it's
....\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\6m0mef0s.default
for deployment, all i have to do is:
1) Install the same version (offline installer) of the Firefox i used..
2) overwrite the contents of the new profiles folder (randomly named by Firefox installer as usual) ..
This should set all my configs and addons right?
or what other folders do i have to backup and copy manually into the new profiles folder?
I don't think i need to tinker w/ any registries right?
anyway, if this works, though it's a bit manual, it's a whole lot simplier, and straight forward than fiddling w/ Installers and Packages etc..
PS
I do this a lot w/ other simple (and some complex) software that i use and they seem to work fine for years.. i'm just not sure with firefox and how it's structured..
