Install and Configure Firefox 106 silently using SCCM

The following steps show how to create a silent install package of Firefox, complete with custom configuration.

Note: these settings will be applied for all new and existing users and can not be changed by users.

It does the following tasks:

  • Install Firefox silently, without Firefox being the default
  • Disables the ‘Automatically check for updates’ option
  • Disables the import wizard when Firefox first loads
  • Disables the ‘Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup’ option
  • Sets homepage to ‘http://www.google.com’ (you can change this in your configuration)
  • Disables the ‘know your rights’ button from displaying on first run
  • Disables the request to send performance data from displaying

How to customise and deploy (silent install) Firefox

  1. Create a temporary working folder for saving the files into (for example, create C:\TEMP\Firefox)
  2. SCCM-Firefox1
  3. Download the latest install file at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all . Save to C:\TEMP\Firefox
  4. Create a new text file called ‘override.ini’ and copy in the following information:
[XRE]
EnableProfileMigrator=false
  1. Create a new text file called ‘local-settings.js’ and copy in the folling information:
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
  1. Create a new text file called ‘mozilla.cfg’ and copy in the following information:
//Firefox Default Settings
// set Firefox Default homepage
pref("browser.startup.homepage","http://www.google.com");
// disable default browser check
pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "ignore");
// disable application updates
pref("app.update.enabled", false)
// disables the 'know your rights' button from displaying on first run
pref("browser.rights.3.shown", true);
// disables the request to send performance data from displaying
pref("toolkit.telemetry.prompted", 2);
pref("toolkit.telemetry.rejected", true);
  1. Create a new text file called ‘install.cmd’ and copy in the following information
@echo off
REM==========================================
REM Install FireFox 106.0.1
REM==========================================
REM Date : 23 October 2022
REM Author : www.itsupportguides.com
REM .
REM Script Details:
REM --------------
REM This script will:
REM + silently install or upgrade Firefox WITHOUT Firefox being the default browser
REM + Disables the 'Automatically check for updates' option
REM + Disables the 'Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup' option
REM + Deletes desktop icon
REM + Disables the Import Wizard
REM + Works for Windows 7 /8 32-bit and 64-bit
REM .
REM===========================================
echo Installing Firefox - Please Wait.
echo Window will close after install is complete
REM Installing Firefox
"%~dp0Firefox Setup 106.0.1.exe" -ms
REM Install 64-bit customisations
if exist "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\" copy /Y "%~dp0override.ini" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\browser\"
if exist "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\" copy /Y "%~dp0mozilla.cfg" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\"
if exist "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\" copy /Y "%~dp0local-settings.js" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref"
REM Removes Firefox Desktop Icon - Windows 7 / 8
if exist "%public%\Desktop\Mozilla Firefox.lnk" del "%public%\Desktop\Mozilla Firefox.lnk"
  1. Copy the Firefox install file, override.ini, mozilla.cfg, local-settings.js and install.cmd to your software package share
  2. You can now create your SCCM package or deploy the software by using install.cmd.

For more information on creating SCCM packages see SCCM – How to Distribute Software Packages.

More Firefox configurations:

Please refer to the following articles for some more common customisations:

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199 comments on “Install and Configure Firefox 106 silently using SCCM

  1. Hi,

    question regarding the override.ini. does it only work for normal users? if i start firefox it still brings up the profile manager unfortunately. i am logged in as user with admin rights, does the enableproilemaganer=false only apply to normal users? if yes is there a way to disable it also for admin users?

    thanks in advance

  2. I also had to deploy this so Firefox never remembered the users History and always asked where to download to. I eventually got the following switches to work. Just add them into Mozilla.cfg before you deploy-

    pref(“browser.privatebrowsing.autostart”, true);
    pref(“browser.download.useDownloadDir”, false);

  3. Hey Habluz,

    Sorry to hear it’s not working for you, but I’ve retested this process and it’s still working fine for me. In fact it’s working for me, my organisation and hundreds of others which have come for this deployment solution.
    (and this testing was upgrading from FF 13 and fresh installs of FF 14).

    What happens when you load Firefox 14? Does it give any error messages – such as unable to load Mozilla.cfg?

    If you haven’t already I suggest you try downloading the example file above (run ‘install.cmd’ as Administrator).

    When I continued my testing I was able to modify the Mozilla.cfg file to a different homepage, when i reopened firefox the new homepage was loaded – confirming that Firefox 14 was using the cfg file.

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