1468324 - "Full Installer Configuration" does not work with silent install

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1461592

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Mikael]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.79 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I download the full windows installer from "https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/all/", and I try to run an silent install with "Full Installer Configuration" (https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/installer/windows/installer/FullConfig.html) and the parameter, that MaintenanceService should not install.
Like this:
"C:\Path\Firefox Setup 60.0.2.exe" /MaintenanceService=false
The same is with all parameters (shortcut's etc) and even the ini-file option, they get ignored.


Actual results:

"Maintenance Service" is installed anyway


Expected results:

"Maintenance Service" shoud not get installed.

Comment 1

[Molly Howell (she/her) (mostly inactive)]

The command line options aren't actually available until version 62. I apologize for the confusion. There isn't a good way in that documentation platform to indicate specific versions that a change applies to. I tried over in bug 1461592 (the last time this came up) to add a note there indicating the version requirement; I'm afraid that's the best I can do.

Comment 2

[Mikael]

OK, thanks. I saw the number "62.0" in the top left corner, beneath "Mozilla Source Tree Docs", but did not think of it as an FireFox version, because the latest version is 60, thought of it as the documentation version.

And I just found out why the ini-file option did not work for me as well.
It was because the ini-file was saved as "UTF-8" and not as "ANSI". (From maxime.accadia tip in bug 1461592 with the LF).