WinRAR question about making an EXE file

[sam13484]

I was playing around with Firefox (adding some extensions), and thought I'd try to incorporate them into the setup application. I used WinRAR to extract the files and got a setup file along with some data folders. I put the extension files where I wanted them, but I don't know anything about how to "recompile" the extracted files back into a single setup file. Can anyone point me to something that might help me learn how to do this? Thanks (Hope I put this in the right forum area).

[ricktendo]

Firefox is actually a 7zip SFX... You could use 7ZSplit.exe to extract the config.txt and .7z archive

For WiRAR

- Highlight all the files and choose "Add to archive"

- Check "Create sfx archive"

- Go to the Advanced tab and hit the "SFX options" button

- In the General tab add setup.exe to be Run after extraction (you can add /S to make is silent)

- In the Modes tab you choose to make it "Hide all" and "Overwrite all files"

- Optional, in the Text and Icon you can add a SFX Firefox icon you extract using reshacker

- Hit OK

Your comment should look like this

;The comment below contains SFX script commands

Setup=setup.exe /S
Silent=1
Overwrite=1

Edited December 28, 2007 by ricktendo64

[sam13484]

Thanks for the short tutorial. Everything worked exactly as you listed. For any one out there who has experience with Firefox installs, I have two additional questions:

When Firefox is started for the first time, and just after it asks if I want to import anything from Internet Explorer, I'm presented with a list of the extensions I added to the install. I have to click on the "install" button to install them and continue. Is there somewhere I can configure the setup to automatically choose "install" and install them without a prompt?

I know where to place the desired extensions, so does anyone know where I would place any additional themes in the Firefox installation folders?

I really appreciate the help you gave to me.

[fairyprincess]

You could try loading them into the default profile, by installing firefox, then your extentions then copying that info to the setup files, i've never tried it using the setup but i don't see why it wouldn't work, worth a shot.

[ricktendo]

Themes are the same as extensions you put them in the same folder

Here is my firefox addon, its kinda like this you are doing http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=1471

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

You could also back up your firefox, theres plenty of free progs to do this. You could install UA silently above as Ricks suggestion @ the same time run your back up. I use Fabs autobackup that does much more but is very simple & convenient when you are installing frequently.