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Hello everyone,

I have recently started using Wapt in our company (approximately 120 workstations).
So far, I only deploy apps available on the WAPT store.

I have already deployed Firefox ESR on the workstations, now I would like to change the browser's home page.
In my private repository, I edited the relevant Firefox ESR package and added the following line to the "mozilla.cfg" file
When I redeploy Firefox I don't get any installation errors but Firefox still doesn't have the desired homepage.
I have the same problem with TightVNC, which I edited to change the default password and I can't manage it.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Dylan

Hi,

did you find a solution?

Hi,

No, unfortunately not...

Do you have a single mozilla.cfg file, or do you have other files that are deployed with Firefox?

You need at least two files:

• The first mozilla.cfg file with your settings
• The second file calls mozilla.cfg; I often call it local-setting.js and it's located at: %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref (adjust this according to your installation)

It contains: Next, to set a page to start with Firefox, the parameter in mozilla.cfg is: If you still have any problems, don't hesitate.

Hello Aguay,

Thanks for your reply, I just got back from vacation and I just found your message.

Unfortunately, I do have these two files which I had modified to put my parameters in, but nothing works: when I deploy the package on the machines these two files are present but as in the original.
I'm writing down here what I did to check because I must have made a mistake somewhere.

1 - I downloaded Firefox from the TIS repository on my private repository
2 - I went to the directory \waptdev\xxxxxxxx-firefox-esr-xapt
3 - Here I modified the mozilla.cfg file by adding 4 - I checked the local-settins.js file 5 - then I deployed Firefox on several machines... the installation goes well but the mozilla.cfg file ends up as it was originally.

I don't see where the problem lies (for your information, I have the same issue with VNC; I think I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out where)

Thank you for your help.

Is there anyone who can help me? Could those who have modified Firefox settings point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,
you say you download and modify the package, but how do you re-upload it?
When you manually download the package from your repository and unzip it, is the mozilla.cfg file the same one you modified?

Hello Omahaddict and thank you for your reply.

So, I've never tried downloading from a computer from the private repository, and now I realize I can't because it's asking for an account and password (I did try the WAPT console login, of course, without success).
On the WAPT server side, I duplicated the c:\waptdev\xxxx-firefox-xxx directory, then modified the files I needed and ran the following command: "wapt-get build-upload c:\waptdev\xxx-firefox-xxx".

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I can't figure out what.

Dylan

Hello,

before running the command "wapt-get build-upload c:\waptdev\xxx-firefox-xxx", did you increment the version number (the value after the "-") in the package control file (located in the folder c:\waptdev\xxx-firefox-xxx/WAPT/)?

To install a package directly from a machine, you need to use an account with administrator privileges on that machine, I believe.

Thank you, you've already pointed out my first mistake: no, I wasn't incrementing the version number, that's now been done.
Unfortunately, I have the impression that it's no better on the user side: I'm doing some more tests and I'll come back and tell you the result.