Firefox Extensions

[benners]

SOF IS NO GOOD FOR WHAT I WANT!!,

@Djé

You and I seem to be on the same page, that is what I want to happen. I have finished my script and it has worked on 3 different computers with 5 installs total. The problem with doubles, extensions in both folders, is that the extensions.ini has two entries for the same extension and if you want to uninstall you have to uninstall it twice.

If you can make use of my AutoIt let me know and I will send it you. I use XPlode to select the extensions for each user or computername and the compiled script to install Firefox, Thunderbird, Install the extensions and delete the shortcuts if the username is Benners.

[oioldman]

i understand you quite happily and think that WPI will do as you wish.

Though not knowing how you do your app installs, not sure how you would start this.

Basically i see it being launched towards the end of your build, people check those extensions they wish to use, it installs only them and continues with your build. It is normally run at first login, which is administrator, but if you placed as a runonce for each user, then it would still work.

oioldman

WPI - Windows Post Installer (shold be in Member Contributed Section)

[benners]

Hi oioldman, thanks for the reply. I use XPlode to install the apps, similar to WPI, XPlode has a selectedinstall plugin that can also do as you describe, this is the plugin I use. Although you can select the extensions to install, using the -install-global-extension the actual extension is installed to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\extensions and not to the C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\voflrj9w.default\extensions so if you backup the profile by copying the Profiles\voflrj9w.default the extensions will not be available, but as stated before the prob is sorted.

[Djé]

If you can make use of my AutoIt let me know and I will send it you. I use XPlode to select the extensions for each user or computername and the compiled script to install Firefox, Thunderbird, Install the extensions and delete the shortcuts if the username is Benners.

Sorry for the delay.

Yes, I'm interested in your script (does it copy back the profile as well?)

I am also interested in the XPlode part. I've never used that one but now that you are talking about that plugin, it would be very interesting.

Also I am currently working on an excel sheet (+ vb macros) to allow me to maintain only one list of programs while trying different method of install (RunOnceEx, kTool, WPI for now) and I'd love to have a working xplode example so I can add another method plugin.

If you want to try that one, I'll post it as soon as it will work properly, and tell you about it.

[benners]

Yes, I'm interested in your script (does it copy back the profile as well?)

Yes, there is a folder in the same dir as the compiled script called profiles, this has 2 subfolders, firefox and thunderbird, each contain folders named Default for a default profile and others named after different users. The script gets the name of the current logged on user and copies the profile from the directory of the same name, if no folder is found the default is used.

The XPlode part uses a few xmls, a couple to set variables and the main application installation xml. When I build my uA DVD an AutoIt script parses the extensions directory and gets the names of the folders in it, these names are used as variables in the main xml, the filenames inside the folders are also parsed and this keeps the version numbers updated.

The xmls are attached along with the au3 file, this compiles to Mozilla.exe. If you see any bloopers or can see a clean code way to do things let me know, bit of an AutoIt noob.

xml.rar

[Djé]

Thank you very much, benners

Give me a few days to look at that. I'll keep you informed and tell you about how i'll use/modify it.

And maybe I'll have some questions...

[benners]

No probs, let me know when you get your excel sheet working, I used to use RunOneEx before XPlode, and I like eye candy so Ktool is out of the question, sometimes its just interesting to see how other people are installing Windows and Apps.