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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks, Andre.<br>
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That question is primarily of interest in connection with the
/etc/skel approach.<br>
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Skel began to look more attractive as I ran into some problems
trying to implement with Firefox methods and the articles I cited
below.<br>
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But it turns out that, though only a couple years old, some of the
article information is obsolete.<br>
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I have now found <a
href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_extensions">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_extensions</a>
(why didn't I find that sooner?), which solves the one problem I
was having, and may turn out to be the go-to method for globally
installing extensions in Firefox.<br>
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On 1/9/2015 8:33 PM, Andre Rodovalho wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-09 13:19 GMT-02:00 John Hupp
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<div>Hello, all.
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<div>In Firefox for the initial user on a
system, I want to customize it </div>
<div>(settings, add-ons, etc) and then propagate
that setup to any new users </div>
<div>created.
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<div>I was reading <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox"
target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox</a>,
but </div>
<div>several of the add-ons and links of
interest (e.g. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://firefox.dbltree.com"
target="_blank">firefox.dbltree.com</a> </div>
<div><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://firefox.dbltree.com"
target="_blank">http://firefox.dbltree.com</a>>
and CCK add-on </div>
<div><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cck/"
target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cck/</a>>)
no longer exist.
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<div>Anyone know a way?
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<div>--John
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<div>P.S. Next on my to-do list is a close look
at SystemBack, which will </div>
<div>perhaps handle this chore, but for the
moment I was looking at </div>
<div>application-native methods of doing such
things. For instance, for </div>
<div>certain purposes I can modify the files
installed by </div>
<div>lubuntu-default-settings. I have also had
a little look at /etc/skel </div>
<div>and /etc/profile.d, though those two seem
to have limited use in Lubuntu.</div>
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<div>John,</div>
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<div>User addons for Firefox are (for the most
part I believe) .xpi files and are stored in
home/theusername/.mozilla/firefox/crazymixof#s&letters.default-stringof#s/extensions.</div>
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<div>You propagate the settings, addons,
bookmarks, etc. to newly created users by
including the whole .mozilla folder in
/etc/skel. Including things in skel is the
default way (in any *buntu) to ensure new
users have the same "settings," or "profile"
as the user account the system/distro/respin
is being created on.</div>
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<div>However, Systemback automatically picks up
the settings/profile of the user account used
to create the backup ("Live system create" in
my case) when the box to "Include user data
files" is checked. As far as I can tell;
everything I'd usually have to specifically
include in skel is automatically carried over.</div>
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<div>So, that means I no longer have to make
sure I include the latest ".whatever" folders
in skel to pass on the settings for several
different applications (including Firefox) to
the newly created users. I simply set up the
user account - I'm using Systemback on - the
way I want it to be, before I create the live
system.</div>
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<div>By the way; I set aside a separate machine
(though a different user account would
probably work just as well) for system
creation as I'd imagine either method on a
computer/account I use for myself would be too
easily "contaminated" with my own stuff.</div>
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<div>Eric</div>
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<div>Thank you,</div>
<div>God bless you,</div>
<div>Computers4Christians</div>
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target="_blank">http://computers4christians.org/</a></div>
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Thanks Eric, for the additional info on the behavior of
Systemback. I'll be looking at that soon. Also the
confirmation that /etc/skel is fully respected as the
general-purpose tool for propagating files to new
users. It seems like it would probably work for my
purposes.<br>
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But to raise a few prospective issues: I'm talking about
propagating a Firefox setup <i>on a single machine</i>
to additional new users. The skel method would create
identically-named profiles for each of those users,
which is not what Firefox does in an ordinary new
installation. But that would not be a problem because
they would be in different sessions and not know about
each other, unless perhaps the user made use of the
Firefox Sync feature? Do cookies use the profile name?<br>
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And in the meantime, I found veteran Firefox developer
Mike Kaply and the many informative articles that he has
generously written. For instance:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mike.kaply.com/2012/02/09/integrating-add-ons-into-firefox/"
target="_blank">Integrating Add-ons into Firefox</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/26/customizing-firefox-distribution-ini/"
target="_blank">Distribution.ini</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/15/customizing-firefox-default-preference-files/"
target="_blank">Default Preferences Files</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/16/customizing-firefox-autoconfig-files/"
target="_blank">Autoconfig Files</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/30/customizing-firefox-default-profiles/"
target="_blank">Default Profiles</a><br>
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Those articles provide at least two native Firefox
methods for each of my goals (propagating settings and
also add-ons).<br>
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Kaply also recently released CCK2, which replaces the
CCK I found was no longer available (from my original
post). I understand CCK2 to be an add-on that provides
a front-end for the methods described in his articles
like the ones above.<br>
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