241534 - Cohesive documentation on deploying/customizing/locking down Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We need to create a cohesive set of docs on how to deploy/configure Firefox with
a minimum of effort.  There's some good information out there, and some nice web
tools, it'd be nice to have this all in one place.

some useful links dealing with this.

http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomization/index.html
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/windows/docs/mozilla-pre-config.html
http://www.int-evry.fr/mci/user/procacci/netscape/en/mozilla-autoconfig-en.html

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

shouldn't this be moved to mozilla.org::[e-mail]?

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 250312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Rafael, I know you're working on this, let me know if you need any info etc,
this one is kinda near and dear to my heart, but I don't have the time right now.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 283267 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

--> mozilla.org :: www.mozilla.org

Comment 6

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Deploying_Firefox

I'm working on trying to get some folks to fill in the blanks, folks who've actually deployed Firefox.  

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

--> developer.mozilla.org

Comment 8

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

This isn't really appropriate MDC content.  Deployment documentation is currently being worked on at wiki.mozilla.org here:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment

When that content is more fleshed out, it will be moved to the most appropriate location.

Comment 9

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Yeah, we should move it to another product, unless we want to just WONTFIX it.  I prefer the former, and will act boldly.

Comment 10

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Not really the right component, but the others were even less "consumer of this sofware" than Help Viewer is, so here we are.

Comment 11

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Hmm, this is really the wrong component... How about sumo?

Comment 12

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

David, this may be out of our scope. What do you think?

Comment 13

[David Tenser [:djst]]

This seems out of scope.

Comment 14

[chris hofmann]

the wiki seems to be the place for this kind of documentation.  mkaply may have some thoughs on existing or new pages that are already out there.

Comment 15

[Scoobidiver (away)]

IT departments are amongst Firefox users and corporates are becoming one of the Mozilla priority. See http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/28/firefox-in-the-enterprise/

Nevertheless, the wiki page about the Firefox deployment is outdated.

Comment 16

[Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW]]

As Chris H says, the wiki is probably the best place for this content, *however* the wiki is a repository of information created by everyone (ie not the wiki-team). As such this needs to be transferred (again) to a suitable group for content creation, or an invitation made to 'the public' to do so.

Given that this 'bug' was filed nine and a half years ago, the appropriate action now would seem to be to close it on a 'WONTFIX' basis but with an invitation to "SODOIT" to whomever _is_ responsible for documentation.