How to silently install firefox to a specific directory?

[rossic]

Hi,

Thanks to all who post to this forum. Lots of good tidbits in here!

I am hoping to find a way to install firefox2.x silently to a specific directory...

Extracting the latest firefox2.0.0.12.exe, I got directories and another setup.exe. Extracting that got me an [NSIS].nsi file, which made me believe that I could use standard NSIS commands (setup.exe /S /D=%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet\Firefox2) but was not successful.

The NSIS script seemed to be assembly, which confused me, but I'm not big on NSIS scripting anyway. There does seem to be a place where "$INSTDIR" or something similar located, but didn't see any clear way to modify it's value.

Anyone know a good (and relatively painless) solution for me?

Thanks!

[rossic]

Got it... Don't you love self answered posts?

For everyone interested in this topic, please read on.

My naivety got the best of me here. I was right - the setup.exe inside the main installer is NSIS. That means it should work with the /D=CUSTOMDIRECTORY switch. My mistake was that I couldn't simply use the nLite Addon Maker on that directory. By first SFXing the entire directory with a script like:

TempMode

Silent=1

Overwrite=1

Setup=setup.exe /S /D=%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet\Firefox2

and then using the Addon Maker, I was able to install it to my desired directory. It seems this is rather common - I had a similar problem with IrfanView, and couldn't understand why I was the only one with problems. This method solved that problem for me as well.