Showing posts with label Installer. Show all posts
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Sunday, 7 October 2012

Firefox for Windows gets a web installer


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Saturday, 7 April 2012

Create A Custom Firefox Installer with Add-ons, Bookmarks And Preferences

Deploying a customized version of the Firefox web browser can be quite the daunting task. It does not really matter if you are a home user who wants to copy Firefox to another PC, or a system administrator who has to deploy Firefox on hundreds of PCs. Home users can use Firefox backup programs like Febe or Mozbackup for instance to copy their extensions and settings to the new computer.

Firefox Addon Maker offers to create custom Firefox installers that will not only install the selected web browser version, but also add-ons, plugins, bookmarks, passwords and other custom preferences.

The portable Windows application displays all customization options on one screen. It begins with the selection of the Firefox edition that the installer should install on target computer systems. The program supports the current stable version of the browser, the beta version and the previous version. It does not support Aurora or Nightly versions, or older versions. All program interface languages are selectable here as well.

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While it is possible to include existing profile data in the installer, it is also possible to create a custom installer without it. You can select one of the detected Firefox profiles directly, or a custom profile path instead which is for instance necessary for portable versions of the browser, or if the correct profile path has not been detected by Firefox Addon Maker.

The private and common options menus define which settings and components are copied from the selected profile to be included in the installer.

The following choices are available:

Private Options: Include bookmarks, passwords, cookies, history, preferences, sessions and extension user dataCommon Options: Including extensions and themes, plugins, components, search engines, dictionaries, modules and hyphenation

It is possible to copy the complete profile, or only select preferences. Home users for instance may want to include all preferences and settings, while business owners might not want to include cookies, passwords or the browsing history.

It is probably a good idea to create and configure a new Firefox profile to be used for the creation of the custom installer, as it is not possible to customize individual settings further. All extensions will for instance be copied over, without options to select only some. A new profile allows you to customize the installation exactly the way you want it to be distributed.

The editable options can be used to set Firefox as the default browser on the target system, to select custom interface icons, and to disable the browser’s Migration Wizard, Compatibility Wizard and Crash Reporter.

The program furthermore offers to include the latest Adobe Flash Player and Shockwave plugins, as well as Macromedia Authorware, Windows Media Player and the Microsoft Office 2007 in the installer. This is useful if the option to include plugins from the selected Firefox profile has been disabled.

The installer can add the Firefox installation to the start menu, pin it to the Quick Launch toolbar and place a shortcut on the desktop.

A click on Create Installer finally creates the custom Firefox installer. The program downloads the selected version of Firefox before it is processed and the installer is created.

The program saves the custom installer on the desktop. The program and the created installer are compatible with all recent 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system.

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Thursday, 29 March 2012

This Has To Be The Most Ridiculous Adware Installer Ever

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I originally wanted to post a review of the image effect editor Vampix, but when I tried to install the software, I stumbled upon something else. The program setup did not include one, two, three or even four third party software offers. No, it included a total of five of them all neatly packaged in the installer with the last one being displayed on first program start.

I do get it when application developers want to make money with their applications. But bundling more than one or two offers, that’s just insane. Users who do not pay attention may install all five of those offers, and while some may even themselves out in regards to changing the homepage and search provider, they still end up with programs on their system that they had no intention to install in the first place. Users who do pay attention on the other hand may get annoyed and even stop the installation of the application when they are fed up with the offers thrown at them.

Two versions of Vampix are offered on the developer’s website. A version with and one without Relevant Knowledge. If you download and install the one without RK, you end up with four third party offers. Lets take a look at how this plays out:

First up is Relevant Knowledge. If you do not want to install it, select Decline and then next.

Next up is the Super Software package, uncheck the optional sponsor to exclude it from the installation.

The third offer that comes up later on in the installer is the Babylon Toolbar which will be installed if you do not switch to custom installation. Make sure you also disable the homepage and default search engine change if you do not want it to be made on your system.

The third option is for Complitly which will also change the homepage and search provider.

When you start the application for the first time afterwards, you’d be presented with the fifth and final option. This one will install the Cuivo Toolbar on the system if you do not hit the Decline button again.

What’s your take on this? Is that overkill?

Update: The author is offering versions of the applications without third party offers. I first overlooked the listing, it is right beneath the table of sponsored free software.

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