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Configure Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird company-wide

by Tom in  

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are wonderful tools to browse through the www and sending E-Mails. There are some ways to configure this both programms permantly(firefox.cfg|thunderbird.cfg) or temporarily (user.js). One way to deploy the setting company-wide is to use mozptch. But I use another way.

With mozptch you have always change your GPO-Template to reflect new config-variables. I think it’s better to have plain text files and distribute this files if needed and changed. We use MS GPO’s in our MS Active Directory and Nitrobit-GPO’s in our Samba/OpenLDAP-Domain to deploy software an permissions. Now I’ve written a WSH-Script to deploy the firefox.cfg|thunderbird.cfg to the machines and the user.js in the user profile directory (it reads the profiles.ini for the path). This script runs under the control of GPO’s as bootscript resp. logonscript. It also adjusts the appropriate all.js. I call this script four times.

boot-script:

/environment:boot /program:firefox /sourcecfg:<unc-path>firefox.cfg
    /environment:boot /program:thunderbird /sourcecfg:<unc-path>thunderbird.cfg

logon-script:

/environment:logon /program:firefox /sourcecfg:<unc-path>user.js
    /environment:logon /program:thunderbird /sourcecfg:<unc-path>user.js

Here my firefox.cfg and thunderbird.cfg as example.

Future information about Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird configration could be found underAutomatic Mozilla Configurator, Mozilla AutoConfig and

The SIPB Thunderbird Locker.

These WSH- (VBS-)Scripts, are copyrighted © by Tom Geißer,.

These scripts are free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

Thess scripts are distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Tom