firefox-custom-cookbook

Chef cookbook to enabled customization of Firefox installation.

Supported Platforms

• Windows - XP, Vista, 7, 2003, 2008, 2012
• Linux - Ubuntu, CentOS
• Mac OS X (unverified)

Will support what ever the Supermarket cookbook firefox supports

HELP: Need contributor for Mac OS X

Attributes

• ['firefox-custom']['local-settings'] - enables and sets filename for global preference file, default ''mozilla.cfg''

Usage

firefox-custom::default

Include firefox-custom in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[firefox-custom::default]"
  ]
}

TO DOs

• Change mozilla.cfg from remote_file to template
• Add override.ini
• Add userChrome.css/userContent.css
• Add
  • greprefs.js - preferences shared by all applications using the Mozilla platform
  • services/common/services-common.js - preferences for some shared services code, this should arguably be included in some other file
  • defaults/pref/services-sync.js - default preferences for Firefox sync, also oddly misplaced
  • browser/app/profile/channel-prefs.js - a file indicating the user's update channel. This is kept separate from other preferences because it can affect how updates are applied.
  • browser/app/profile/firefox.js - defaults specific to Firefox
  • browser/app/profile/firefox-branding.js - defaults specific to the specific kind of Firefox being installed (Nightly, Aurora, Beta, Release)
  • browser/defaults/preferences/firefox-l10n.js - defaults specific to the installed language of Firefox. None of the other preference files contain locale-specific preferences.
• Add support for ESR, may require forking cookbook firefox

Links

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security_Policies

License and Authors

Author:: digitalR00ts(developement@digitalr00ts.com)