Guide: Mozilla Firefox Unattended

[Astalavista]

nope only u seem to have that bug mine is set to disable

[Nanaki]

Config value "accessibility.browsewithcaret" should be "false". Maybe it's configured wrong?

[CHANDER]

But how would only mine have that problem? Because I certainly didnt enable it...Some things you can do by accident, this isnt one of them

If anyone wants to try installing through the installer I have to see whats wrong.....

Firefox10_Silent_EN

[Astalavista]

I installed firefox about a dozen times today and their is no problem.

[CHANDER]

But thats the messed up part..so did I. Although I only did it with the file I had already downloaded, didnt go and download it again. And I only reinstalled it about 5 or 6 times...

[Astalavista]

I am testing a new program that i wrote, and

norton internet security 2005

and Drivers pack

firefox is perfect. wouldn't u think if others had the same problem they

would hv posted by now? your the first to report this and firefox by

simon has been out for so long.

[CHANDER]

Meh..as I said its fixable...il download the installer again and see if it happens again.

[Astalavista]

I think i know what your problem is already

follow the steps below CAREFULLY

1. Uninstall firefox,

2. Go to c:\documents_and_settings\<username>\application_data\mozilla\

3. Delete that folder

[CHANDER]

Ya I did that every time I reinstalled firefox...

[SiMoNsAyS]

well your problem it's not a problem itself

when i built the installer, i included a copy of my prefs.js file with my default settings (including user_pref("accessibility.browsewithcaret", true); ). if you want to tweak any1 or include yours here is what you need to do...

open the .exe setup you downloaded with winrar. extracth en_US.xpi and open that file with winrar again. there you'll see some interesting folders like "searchplugins" with the default searchplugins included (you can add/remove any).

browse to defaults>profile>pref.js and edit it with your preferences. now back on the process, save your prefs.js and update the file en_US.xpi, then re-add it to the setup package (easy enough? ).

most people is not having this problem because they overwrite the default settings with his profiles... also it explains why if you reinstall firefox the "problem" re-appears. sorry if this caused an inconvenience

edit: you can also add this network settings to the prefs.js that apparently "improve" the browsing for dsl connections

user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 1);
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 40);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);

Edited January 23, 2005 by SiMoNsAyS

[CHANDER]

Thanks for the confirmation that I wasn't just imagining things I'l get right ont the prefs editing...about the network settings, do they actually do anything? I read them in an article a while back and had implemented them but didnt really see much of a change

Edit: does the pref.js file accept variables? I want my download directory to be "%homepath%\My Downloads"

[SiMoNsAyS]

do they actually do anything?

well this setting is specially interesting

user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

it increases the time it waits until it can't display the page so i would add it

does the pref.js file accept variables?

no, that's why i included C:\Downloads that is my default download dir. this is one of our big problems when trying to install extensions and themes unattended.

[CHANDER]

Ok I'l take that one

And I assume theres no way to get arround the variable block? cant access a key from the registry or have it download to a link that points to your homedirectory

[SiMoNsAyS]

correct.

that's why we used the @jdoe's method. the .vbs read those paths and writes them on the necessary files using gsar.

[CHANDER]

Ok thanks for all your help.