764709 - Add silent switch to opt-out of Maintenance Service install

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1425468

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement, P5)

Description

[tomorrow]

When user uses the -ms switch then Firefox gets installed silently along with the maintenance service. I propose an additional -nms switch (No Maintenance Service) that acts like -ms but does not install the maintenance service. Or make -nms a separate switch (in that case user has to use -ms -nms).

Not to be confused with bug [url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741174]741174[/url] that adds option to /INI to skip the installation of the maintenace service. There are situations where using an /INI is not possible or reasonable so a new general switch is nessesary.

Marked as enhanchement and P5 as it's not a big issue for most people. However as a sysadmin i like my installers to have silent switches to opt-out of various component installs.

Reason why i dont want the Maintenance Service installed by default is that i like to review the changes to the new stable version before installing it to users, in order to ensure everything works as it should. Granted, i should problably use the ESR release, but i like having new features delivered quicker and our company is not that big.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Just linking these up so I can easily find this later on.

Comment 2

[Molly Howell (she/her) (no longer active)]

I just noticed this bug, but we actually implemented this feature a while back in bug 1425468; the parameter to use is /MaintenanceService=false. We also added a bunch of other parameters which are all documented here.