436627 - ENTREPRISE WIDE SERVER CENTRIC MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR MOZILLA PRODUCTS + DEPLOYMENT + USER'S PROFILE CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT + WINDOWS ACTIVE DIRECTORY (AD) + MSI + GPO/GPT + .ADM

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 267888

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[AneOnim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; Crazy Browser 2.0.1)
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hello you all, 
excuse me may be not to post in the right place ! but i would ask for a some MAJOR IMPROVEMENT ! and I have not so much time to search where to do it. That's the reason why I ask here ! 


BEFORE any other major feature in FF/TB .... PLEASE include _urgently & prioritaly_ in Mozilla products suite (firefox & thunderbird first) :

. _*BETTER*_ MEMORY Manager !!! Mozilla firefox (and other) management are huge obese (very hardly fat) programs !!! (I dont use firefox any more for that one amongst others reason, but thanx for your nice programs)

. ENTERPRISE WIDE DEPLOYMENT TOOLS : GPO on Windows/AD (or other on any other system (novell, linux…) + .MSI package PLEASE !!!! Actually as a Sys & Net admin, I have to patch your (good for home) job to agree with entreprise class computer systems management ! There is NOTHING to easily deploy the products & to easyly manage user’s profiles !!!! (I think about the crypted chain user’s profile directory name !)

. and a system for integrate the addition of new features (plugins) with this .MSI packages methods (why not .MST packages or something like ?) or any other clever and clean method (adding of other .MSI…. besides .XPI yet used method !)

Doing that will hardly increase your potential (as mozilla developers & users) to introduce yourself on the professional market as a more serious concurrent to MS-IE !! and will help yourself to do friends with the sys admins all around this planet !

Not doing what I suggest you will make Firefox & Thunderbird better products but strongly restricted for home usage only ! it would be pity !

So please think about all the sys admins that are waiting for this MAJOR requests. Please let drop the addition of new gadgets in this both products and consider the request for that 2 MAJOR features ! You will increase your chance to be the next IE killer app ! 

Please consider how the IE entreprise management is integrated with AD and easily centraly managed from servers core infrastructure !
Please consider tools like IEAK (IE Admin tooKit on http://www.technet.com) for firefox or thunderbird equivalents (FFAK / TBAK ???)
PLEASE consider to furnish tools as firefox.adm or firefox.admx for (windows) sysadmins
and last but not the least, please consider to may be furnish a graphical equivalent to .adm/.admx in AD/GPO … why not ? why not making GPO configuration as easy as graphicaly configuring the original HMI (Human-Machine Interface) : see specopsoft.com or gpoanswers.com for help.

The aim of all my suggestions is to have mozilla products with server/central centric management and not with client-side centric management.

Thank you for all your profesionnal job already done !
Thank you for your patience for reading me.
Answer(s) would be appreciated if possible and if time allows (french is prefered  )

Jean-Christophe


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
any time you install FF, you have to do it manualy !!!

I would have an UNATTENDED installation mode instead at least !!!!!
Actual Results:  
Now I need to repeat manualy installation of my FF or TB software on all my PCs !!! what a **** ! 

There is any centralised tools for FF easy deployment ! 
There is any centralised tools for TB easy deployment ! 

Expected Results:  
Better usage and simplicity for sys admins !!!! 
Stopping working like @home during working hours with a product that could be better adopted if professional level deployment and maintenance tools were included in.

Thank you for reading me and patience.
Thank you to include this request in next release of FF/TB ! 

Jean-Christophe

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

verified dupe

Comment 3

[AneOnim]

Thank you for all job already done, but please think to us Sys Admins and to
you (mozilla users, fondation...) to adopt more rapidly a new mozilla
professionnal server centric product suite. 


The proof of what I say is that the "Entreprise" keyword is not recognised by
you commitment procedure ! !!! 

PLEASE, in year 2008, it's great time to think "entreprise centric management"
yet !!!!!

  

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Note: unattended install is already implemented (bug 240795), but it's not using the Active Directory route (group policies and such) for central administration. 

My company has been distributing Mozilla and now Firefox for years, without ADM support, using various commercial products, SMS and whatever. You don't need ADM to run an enterprise. In fact, we're stepping away from it.