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. [quote name=”Sean”]I am trying to set a predifined list of bookmarks with the install to 150+ nodes, does anyone know of a way to do this?[/quote]
    Yes without problems on existing user profile …. with batch and SQLite scripts which instert records in database.
    If you need to install on new computer then very simple in Mozilla Firefoxdefaultsprofile you need to put palces.sqlite with correct content.

  2. Thanks, everyone for the assistance.

    I did some troubleshooting on using pref vs. lockpref and it seems that lockpref was giving me the same issue with not being able to read the configuration file. I switched from lockpref to pref and everything is working as expected.

  3. Hi
    I tried to install Firefox v8.0.1 (french version) with the -ms switch and it works.
    then,i’ve deployed .cfg and .js and .ini, but when i launch firefox.exe, i still have this message “Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator.”
    I work on XP SP3.
    Help please
    thanks
    sorry for my english, i’m french
    contents of mozilla.cfg
    //Firefox Default Settings

    lockPref(“browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone”, “ignore”);
    lockPref(“startup.homepage_override_url”, “”);
    lockPref(“startup.homepage_welcome_url”, “”);
    lockPref(“browser.rights.3.shown”, true);

    //stops the ‘know your rights’ button from displaying on first run
    pref(“browser.rights.3.shown”, true);

    //stops the request to send performance data from displaying
    pref(“toolkit.telemetry.prompted”, true);

    //Enregistrer les mots de passe – Desactivé
    pref(“signon.rememberSignons”, false);

    //Desactivation des mises a jour automatiques
    pref(“app.update.enabled”, false);
    pref(“extensions.update.enabled”, false);
    pref(“browser.search.update”, false);

    //Desactivation navigateur par defaut
    pref(“browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser”, false);

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