Tag Archives: enterprise

Creating a Customized Firefox Distribution

You may have heard of the the Firefox Build Your Own Browser Project. On the web page, it says it “is a simple way that your organization can create and distribute a customized version of Firefox.” I think BYOB is … Continue reading

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Customizing the Firefox Installer on Windows

One of the questions I get asked a lot is how to customize the Firefox installer on Windows and how to bundle extensions with it. I’ve spent the past few days learning a great deal about this subject, so I … Continue reading

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CCK Wizard Status

With the release of Firefox 3.6, people are already asking me about a new CCK Wizard. I am working on an update. You can get a beta of that here. Primary changes are more information on the proxy page, ability … Continue reading

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I Couldn't Stay Away From the CCK

So it just so happens that some of the work I’m doing before I leave IBM involves the CCK, so I ended up working on it and fixing some bugs. In addition, a company asked for a feature that was … Continue reading

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CCK Wizard 1.2 Finally Available

The CCK Wizard for Firefox 3 is finally available. I had been holding off trying to get some translation work but finally gave up. You can get it from amo: CCK Wizard 1.2 Enjoy!

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Enterprise Firefox Requirements

I was going through some old documents from the office and found the result of a brainstorming session around Enterprise Firefox requirements. I wanted to capture this list somewhere and figured this was the best place. Note that some of … Continue reading

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Customizing Firefox with the CCK Wizard

New version with fix for search engines not working. FYI, I’m making a beta of the CCK Wizard available today for Firefox 3. If you are deploying Firefox in your enterprise, educational institution, or even your household, you’ll want to … Continue reading

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Group Policy Extension for Firefox

I’ve been working with Cesar Oliveira from Seneca College to put together some initial attempts at group policy support. Here’s his comment from bug 267888: Since there doesn’t seem to have been any communication from the assignee for over a … Continue reading

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Customizing Reporter for your Enterprise

Ever wish the reporter extension could be used to report problems with internal websites? Yuriy Krylov has an excellent post up about customizing reporter for your intranet. Definitely worth a read.

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Firefox, Group Policy and Active Directory

One of the complaints that seems to come up a lot with regards to Firefox in the enterprise is the lack of support for management via Active Directory (using Group Policies). There have actually been a couple attempts to solve … Continue reading

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