Deploy customized Firefox to new users

John Hupp ubuntu at prpcompany.com
Mon Jan 12 17:59:30 UTC 2015


On 1/12/2015 11:46 AM, Andrew J. Caines wrote:
> John,
>
>> In Firefox for the initial user on a system, I want to customize it
>> (settings, add-ons, etc) and then propagate that setup to any new
>> users created.
> Firefox stores its configuration in ~/.mozilla/ so you could add this
> directory to the skeleton directory which you use when creating new users.
>
> I suggest you use a freshly created ~/.mozilla/ as this directory
> quickly accumulates crud and choose a specific profile name.
>
> See useradd(8) for details of the skeleton directory.
>
>

Thanks Andrew.  I was trying to use the more precise and economical 
methods, but they are starting to cost me a fair amount of time for 
these very modest goals.  If I can't get things to behave I'll fall back 
on skel and be glad for it.

(I may not have posted about it here, but I've already figured out how 
to nicely propagate extensions to new users.  It seemed like I was just 
10 yards from the goal line at that point, but then the going got rough.)




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