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. What’s all this unnecessary scripting to install/uopgrade firefox? Use the switches below.

    Unattended / Silent Install Parameter
    firefox-18.0.1.exe -ms

    for upgrade use:
    -ms -cleanupOnUpgrade

  2. [quote name=”Matt”]I’m trying to deploy the latest version (18) of Firefox via SCCM 2012. So I tried taking the info and just adjusting for the version difference. Wouldn’t deploy. So I downloaded the ZIP file at the top and tried deploying that. Still will not deploy. It will however install from command line, with all options from the mozilla.cfg file. So I have to assume I’m missing something in the creation of the SCCM package. I have copied the files to the source folder, and told SCCM where to look (source folder being \cromartiesoftware for packagesFirefox), but when you browse to here, nothing shows up. Is it looking for an msi file?? Continuing with package creation, I use ‘install.cmd’ AS the command line text. (This is the command I run from CMD that installs FF17 perfectly from my workstation.) Content has been delivered to distro’s. Package simply will not deploy properly.

    Thanks for reading all that.
    Any suggestions??[/quote]

    Fix’d a typo.

  3. I’m trying to deploy the latest version (18) of Firefox via SCCM 2012. So I tried taking the info and just adjusting for the version difference. Wouldn’t deploy. So I downloaded the ZIP file at the top and tried deploying that. Still will not deploy. It will however install from command line, with all options from the mozilla.cfg file. So I have to assume I’m missing something in the creation of the SCCM package. I have copied the files to the source folder, and told SCCM where to look (source folder being \cromartiesoftware for packagesFirefox), but when you browse to here, nothing shows up. Is it looking for an msi file?? Continuing with package creation, I use ‘install.cmd’ and the command line text. (This is the command I run from CMD that installs FF17 perfectly from my workstation.) Content has been delivered to distro’s. Package simply will not deploy properly.

    Thanks for reading all that.
    Any suggestions??

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