Our first goal was to get to Chrome parity (which uses a wrapper as well). And we do provide the ability to customize/repackage the MSI.
Moving to a full MSI installer is not something we can do right now, although we have discussed. It major implications around updating and other things within Firefox. We considered this at least a step forward. Mike Kaply On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:02 AM Kasper, Ryan V. <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree Marc, > > > > Files should go into the native MSI File and Media tables, registry keys > to the Registry table, services to ServiceInstall and ServiceControl. MSI > Components should be leveraged such that autorepair works – otherwise there > is nothing gained by wrapping the EXE into an MSI! > > > > Thank you, > > Ryan V. Kasper > > Leidos Endpoint Operations - Packaging > > > > *From:* Enterprise <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *MELTZER, > MARC S. (ITID) (FBI) > *Sent:* Friday, November 30, 2018 7:52 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* EXTERNAL: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla official MSI > installers available on Nightly > > > > While I’m glad to see this, I’m wondering why you chose the path you did. > Wrapping an EXE install into an MSI doesn’t really gain us anything, does > it? Those of us who need MSIs need them because we customize the install > to our specific needs which cannot be done by simply adding a command line > switch. Namely, we use the CCK2 to build a bunch of preferences and want > to streamline that into the installation. I realize the need for this may > be going away in the long term with the addition of group policy support, > but I’m sure it’s a long way off before it is feature complete. > > > > Marc > > > > *From:* Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of > *Romain > Testard > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 28, 2018 8:54 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla official MSI installers available > on Nightly > > > > Hi all, > > We recently started to make MSI installers (wrappers of the full exe > installer) available as part of our build/release process in order to help > make Windows enterprise deployments simpler. These are now available on > Nightly and will be riding the trains to release with Firefox 65 (will also > be available on our next ESR). > > You can find documentation here > <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-customization-msi-installers> > (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-customization-msi-installers) > that helps understand how to customize Firefox installations with the MSI > installers and it would be great if people on this list who find MSI > installers valuable on their deployments could start testing it. Feedback > can be provided on this list if valuable for all, on bugzilla > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Installer> > for technical issues or directly to me otherwise. > > Thanks for your help! > > Romain > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >
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