Firefox Import wizard

[Confusion]

Grrrr i can’t post what i need about my issue, keep getting spam control

[Confusion]

Does anyone have a trick they are using for a deployed version of Firefox that prevents Firefox trying to import settings on first load.

Our students all run on AD accounts that create a local profile each time they log in (Or home folders are DFS so i am up the creek)
What this means though essentially is that they get this message each time they log into a machine.

I know that ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox is what is created the first time.
The issue i am having is that if i grab this from one machine and have a login script that copies it to that location, when they load firefox it doesn’t ask for the import but it locks itself and has to be force quit.
If I delete that folder then firefox opens but prompts to import settings.

I am sure that it is due to a random folder code ring created e.g. (~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/pk2ri4yl.default
This unique folder does not like being copied to a new machine for some reason.

i have tried putting the folder in /Library/Application Support instead but still get prompted for the import wizard for each user

Any hints or advise would be greatly appreciated.
I have created the managed settings using CCk and am deploying these as an extra app. That is all working fine and the proxy and homepage have both been set correctly

I am also having the same problem for OpenOffice doing essentially the same thing but thats another issue all together.

Thanks

[Allister Banks]

Hey Confusion,

Sorry about the over-agressive spam filter, there’s a sticky on this forum with what to do for when it gets really bad.

Here’s a recent discussion about managing firefox:
[url]http://groups.google.com/group/macenterprise/browse_thread/thread/5dc0a4ea940f7d4f/accba416a6af4b5e[/url]
Hope that helps,

Allister

[Confusion]

Hi thanks for that, i actually have done all of the stuff greg has shown and it is working perfectly.

I am using CCK and then deploying that configuration out to the machines. Our proxy is set, the homepage is set and updates are turned off.

It is just the first run though. There is not an option for that CCK.
From the link you supplied

[quote][i]Secondly, how do you disable the import wizard? I know previous we could create that override.ini file within the Firefox application, but now that we’re moving away from that, what option does CCK give me to cover that?

Thanks!

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GregN Says:

October 21, 2010 at 8:34 am
There’s obviously things the CCK cannot do, or may not do exactly the way you want. I don’t know if the CCK can disable the import wizard — we haven’t had a need to do that.[/i][/quote]

[Allister Banks]

Hey, sorry to be a broken record of less-than-helpful links 😉 , but
http://groups.google.com/group/macenterprise/browse_thread/thread/26a10a248fb40b1a
Maybe chatting with relevant folks will help all of us as a whole!

Allister

[Confusion]

Hey Allister, that link provided my some help and then i found what i needed back on one of greys pages in the comments.

I have tested this and it works perfectly

[i]Don’t forget the ability to disable the Import Wizard: create a file /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/override.ini. The contents should be as follows:

[XRE]
EnableProfileMigrator=false[/i]

Thanks for the link if i had not followed it i wouldn’t have known about override.ini and wouldn’t have searched for it for OSX

[ktappe]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Confusion[/u][p]Hey Allister, that link provided my some help and then i found what i needed back on one of greys pages in the comments.

I have tested this and it works perfectly

[i]Don’t forget the ability to disable the Import Wizard: create a file [code]/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/override.ini[/code]. The contents should be as follows:

[code][XRE]
EnableProfileMigrator=false[/i][/code]

Thanks for the link if i had not followed it i wouldn’t have known about override.ini and wouldn’t have searched for it for OSX[/p][/QUOTE]

Followup tip: I initially tried this and it didn’t work. But the permissions on override.ini were 644. I then changed them to 755 and the Import Wizard was then disabled. Hope this helps someone else!

[henri]

Spam filter? Will not allow me to post.

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