FrontMotion Firefox Community Edition

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Easily deploy Firefox on the enterprise and manage it easily for free! Use our Firefox Packaging Service for even more functionality.

FrontMotion Firefox Community Edition is a customized Firefox with the ability to lockdown settings through Active Directory using Administrative Templates. Similar to lockdown settings with mozilla.cfg on one computer, you can now use Administrative Templates to enforce settings across your organization. Two templates are provided to allow common and advanced settings. Additionally, these installers can upgrade our Mozilla Firefox MSI.

Features

Active Directory deployable and upgradeable.
Active Directory management through Administrative Templates (*.adm).
Desktop Icon similar to IE.
Shell integration similar to IE.
Set Default browser
Macromedia Flash plug-in preinstalled
Detect and upgrades non-MSI installs.
Can upgrade 3rd party MSI's from patpaul/MIT, Webheat.co.uk, and ZettaServe.
Able to properly perform uninstalls and restores system associations
Enhanced functionality like disabled profile migration.

Active Directory Deployment

Download from below and save it to a network location accessible by client computers (e.g. a network share on a domain controller).
Next step depends on if this is a new or upgrade site install.
1. New site install: Create a Group Policy Object (GPO). Right click on an Organizational Unit (OU) or your top level domain, then Properties. In the Group Policy tab, click New to create a new Group Policy.
2. Existing site install: Edit an existing GPO that installs Firefox.
Edit the GPO and navigate to Computer Configuration -> Software Settings -> Software Installation
Next step depends on if this is a new or upgrade site install.
1. New site install: Add the new package, specify the location of the Firefox MSI on a network share. (e.g. \\server\appinstalls\firefox\firefox-x.x.x.x.msi). To use transformations (*.mst), choose 'Advanced before clicking 'OK'.
2. Existing site install: Add the new package and choose 'Advanced' to specify the older packages in the Upgrades tab in the new package's properties.

Downloads statistics

http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/firefox.adm - Used to configure common Firefox settings and presents a user friendly interface for lockdown. Can be used for Per Computer Configuration and Per User Configuration.

http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/mozilla.adm v 1.4 (Explanation of settings) - Per Computer Configuration only, this advanced Administrative template contains all Mozilla settings similar to mozilla.cfg. This can be used together with http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/firefox.adm to enforce more advanced settings. Duplicate settings in http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/mozilla.adm will override http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/firefox.adm settings.

The Firefox Packager Service can create MSI's with extensions.

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