[lilweirddude]

*cough*hl2*cough*

[Astalavista]

will the guide be updated soon?

[SiMoNsAyS]

Quote

We had picked an ambitious target release date for Firefox 1.0 - 9/14 then 10/11 that proved un-attainable if we were going to achieve the quality our users demand. Hitting our new target date, 11/9 - our new and final release date, is still going to be a difficult task.

this is from the official roadmap of firefox so at least until 11/10 no (i want to update when the final version is released), but as you can read this date is moving again and again so i can't say anything at this moment.

[lilweirddude]

im having a problem with the vbs files, tried running it from "run"
and i disabled my a/v

[SiMoNsAyS]

@lilweirddude please tell us more. isn't it running? it opens on notepad? try rightclicking it and run it from there to see if it works.

[Astalavista]

Simon the new release Firefox Setup (1.0rc1, en-US) does not accept the old themes. just wanted to let u know.

[SiMoNsAyS]

Astalavista, on Oct 28 2004, 05:46 AM, said:

Simon the new release Firefox Setup (1.0rc1, en-US) does not accept the old themes. just wanted to let u know.

f****!
better let skinners update their files....

ps: still waiting to 11/10!

[Astalavista]

it is ok simon hopefully they will come out with new themes

[lilweirddude]

heres the error

[jdoe]

@lilweirddude
It's not an AntiVirus problem

Make sure you have a file called WSHOM.OCX in SYSTEM32 folder (I think it's the file needed for this object)

Edit PREPARE.VBS with NOTEPAD and replace line 4 and 5 with

Set WSS = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set FSO = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

I don't see why it don't work

[lilweirddude]

i'll try that
thanks

[lilweirddude]

still doesnt work...
argh

[totoymola]

What causes my screen to flicker during the installation?

[lilweirddude]

anyone have any other ideas?
btw, im trying this with 1.0 pr

[Astalavista]

Theme\Extension Collection: (Profile\Extended)
Extensions: AdBlock, MAF, miniT, OpenBook, Sort Bookmarks
Themes: Charamel, Curacao, Doodle Plastik, Noia (extreme)

Firefox_1.0RC1.exe (7.70 mb)

Firefox_1.0RC1.exe /silent /nocancel

reg add %Key%\065 /VE /D "FireFox" /f
reg add %Key%\065 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\FireFox\Firefox_1.0RC1.exe  /silent /nocancel" /f

created by michael
http://mcmblog.sites...refox_Installer

This post has been edited by Astalavista: 31 October 2004 - 07:03 AM

[lilweirddude]

ok, i got the vbs file to work by dling this file from ms
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

[ic0dk0c00]

I got firefox too install by changing the setup file. I then used 7zip and then

copy /b 7zSD.sfx + config.txt + "Firefox Setup 1.0.1PR.7z" "FirefoxSetup.exe"

too make one files. Then I used PREPARE.VBS for the profile and it all works fine so can I do the same with Thunderbird. I changed the setup file but how do I do the profile.I think PREPARE.VBS would need changing but don't know what.

[nitro322]

Hi, everyone. This is my first post here (been lurking for about a month now), so I want to say thanks to everyone for the tremendous wealth of tips and tricks available on this forum. In particular, I've been interested in this Firefox silent installation thread, since I've been having problems getting this working myself.

I've combined several different ideas presented here, and have my own fairly unique way of packaging Firefox for a silent install. Where I'm running into problems, though, is installing extensions automatically. My preferred method is to use -install-global-extension <extension.xpi>, but I simply cannot get this to work in either of the Firefox release candidates. I can see from many posts on these boards that this method has been used successfully on older builds, but has anyone tried using it on the RC builds? It simply will not work for me.

I'm able to install themes with -install-global-theme, and I'm able to install Thunderbird extensions with -install-global-extension, just not Firefox. Could anyone please check this and let me know whether or not it works for you? If it doesn't work, could you also please post details to this bug:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=266615

If it does work, though, I'd appreciate some help getting my issues resolved. :-) Thanks again for all the hard work everyone has already put into this.

[CoffeeFiend]

I'm using 1.0 PR and it's working flawlessly for me (all 34 install fine!).

The only thing I got issues with is the prepare.cmd. If I include a user profile like that, when I type a URL it opens a new window that doesn't do anything. Kinda messed up.

But, there are many alternative ways to install firefox and user profiles. I'll be definately looking deeper into this when the final comes out (think it's due for the 18th, isn't it?)

Installing the main app and the plugins is a non issue as far as I'm concerned (I don't use skins on anything at all). The only "complex" thing is the user profile, which seems to create several issues... I've seen various scripts and ways, but it takes a while to test all this with several users accounts. I plan on having a deep look at the GlobalProfile way of deploying a profile, see if that will work better (I hope so!) But again, it'll have to wait till the final is out. I see little point of doing all this work now and having to redo it all in a little over a week from now. I might make a different guide than SiMoNsAyS' - probably a bit easier too (mostly simplified, but just for english systems...) Perhaps It'll have the scripts and modified files pre-made for download too... We'll see!

BTW: welcome to MSFN

[totoymola]

Guys, 1.0 RC2 is out. Same as Thunderbird 0.9.

Here is the direct link. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...up%201.0rc2.exe