I seek to install the Adobe Flash Player plugin on firefox 39.0 for all users of my terminal server.
I've found so many solutions on the internet all of which do not work (yay). So can someone explain to me one working solution to get the latest Adobe Flash Player on the firefox 39.0 of all my users, so they will be able to see flash? I'd rather do stuff in Program Files (x86)/Mozilla Firefox/browser than in everyone's Users/user1/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla.
Thanks in advance
Apparently Firefox now blocks versions of flash older than 18.0.0.209, so check you've got that, or else try to unblock it manually.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/firefox-now-blocks-flash-by-default-1717664482
For other plugins, this used to work:
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/windows-7/install-firefox-flash-plugin-manually-on-windows-7/
In case of Adobe Flash Player, I could not find an .xpi file, instead it worked this way:
log in on terminal server as local administrator
go to command line and type change user /install
install from https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ (unchecking McAfee)
go to command line and type change user /execute
And it appeared to be installed for all users; solved. So no manually messing around with files here.
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I just switched to Windows 11 and Firefox have a strange behaviour. When a download of a PDF starts it is configured that it will ask me what to do. So in general I use open with Adobe PDF Viewer. This also works. But the file is anyway in my Download-Folder. I was used that it will be saved in the temp folder %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp and then also deleted after a while. If I want a file saved for a longer time I save it explicitly to a location I want to have it.
Any idea what is wrong in the Windows 11 or Firefox (currently 98.0.1)
Thanks a lot!
I got the same behavior.
I tried to re-install the version 97 of firefox on Windows 11 plateform and it use again the %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp when I open a PDF in Acrobat.
It's seems to be related to the new last Firefox version, but not to Windows 11 plateform.
I try to find a way to get the "old" behavior using the %USERPROFILE% "Temp" folder rather than the "Download" folder set in the firefox settings withe the last 91.0.1 version of Firefox ?
Regards
Same thing happened to me, but I'm using Windows 10 with Firefox version 101.0.1
The way I fixed this is by going to about:config in Firefox and changing "browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel" to false.
Your PDFs should now appear in your %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp folder.
I am currently trying to install firefox addons with Ansible.
I found a role for ansible on ansible galaxy, I fixed to work with the latest ansible version (minor python2/3 issue):
Fixed version:
https://github.com/cyborg-x1/ansible-firefox
The Ansible role downloads the xpi file and puts it in the extension folder.
But two issues:
1. Issue
If the .mozilla/firefox/randomString.default-release folder does not exist, it creates it, but then Firefox on the first start creates another directory .mozilla/firefox/randomString.default-release-1 and does not use the directory except selected by profile manager.
2. Issue
The addons are placed in the extension folder, but when starting up they are disabled.
Anoying to do that for > 6 addons.
I tried to to see what changes when I enable the addons by putting a git repo over the ~/.mozilla folder. Multiple files are created the main responsible is a json one where it puts the rights. If I copy that file and just put that in later, it seems NoScript works, but not uMatrix which does not work at all: button with no icon, no reaction when pressing the button.
I also found the way to use /usr/share/mozilla to install addons globally. Problem is, this way, according to documentation, requires to have the addon uid, but that file mentioned (don't recall the name atm) is not present in latest addons of Firefox. So I can not put the appropriate folder name for the addon. Just placing the xpi files there, does nothing at all.
Also on the mozilla docs there is a way mentioned with -install-addon-globally which I tried with firefox executable and the addon file -- no success.
Any Ideas how to solve those issues?
Something that I just need to write in there and they run their installation stuff, what actually seems to be missing when just placing that file.
The first issue could be solved, if I just could run firefox once and close it, then the folder would be there and I can write into it but there is no command line option which terminates firefox after starting, so for Ansible I would need timeout to kill it if it does not return - (I think that's an ugly solution btw)
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks for any help!
You can create a firefox installer bundled with the extensions:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/deploying-firefox-with-extensions
I was using JsPrint Setup extension with Firefox 56 for directly print barcodes from barcode printer (Pc has 2 printers). I had to reinstall windows to pc. Now I cant download JsPrint Setup extension from Addons firefox. I think they removed it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/js-print-setup/
I found zip file on github but firefox doesnot accept the zip file I downloaded from https://github.com/edabg/jsprintsetup.
How can I install this extension or is there any other extension or way for silent print from a specific printer?
Thanks
1: type about:addons on the addressbar of old firefox
2: click the gear on the upper right
3: click install add-on from file
old firefox only..., not supported on later versions
All of the sudden the method by apps open the "select a file" dialog stopped working. For instance if I go to https://uploadfiles.io/, clicking on it does nothing, but the drag and drop works.
This is happening for apps as well, for example I just needed to resync my Google Drive and change the folder location, clicking in "browse" to select a folder does nothing. However, going to Notepad and file > open file works.
I've been searching for a while for the method, .dll, or something that is responsible for this without success. Anyone with a similar issue or more knowledge than what I have can point me in the right direction?
I'm not a naive English speaker so I am not sure if I'm not finding anything because I am not using the right names to search for it.
Windows 10 64b INSIDER PREVIEW FAST RING
I have exactly the same issue. It started somewhere between Friday and today. (Computer was shutdown for two weeks until friday night and before shutting down the problem did not exist.) I suspect some update. In addition to the mentioned issue I have trouble downloading files through Chrome. Edge and IE are downloading fine. Firefox will be installed to test this. It is consistent which apps are (not) allowed to spawn new windows. Apps in 'Program Files' seem OK while those in 'Program Files(x86)' differ. Of those in the (x86) folder OpenOffice is allowed to open a browse window, Adobe Reader is not. KeePass is allowed to open files, EventGhost is not. (changing install folder does not make a difference).
Since it is not clear how long this issue has been around I am hesitant to do a system restore. Also I believe that is a bandaid, not a solution. I am on the Fast Ring of updates.
I want to create a new profile with an addon preinstalled.
What works:
run firefox a first time.
add the addon.xpi to profile/extensions/addon.xpi.
edit profile profile/extensions.ini and add Extension0=/full/path/to/extension.xpi.
start firefox again.
What i need:
add the addon to profile/extensions/addon.xpi.
edit extensions.ini or something similiar.
use only relative paths, if possible (seems not to be implemented for extensions.ini)
Finally i want to create a zip file with some firefox preferences/addons, which can be unziped into a profilefolder to create a fresh profile with some preinstalled stuff. For this, it would be important, that everything works with relative paths. If it is definitely not possible, i can add some script to it. But i would prefer some "just unzip" solution.
I think it may be a bit harder, because mozilla wanted to prevent other software from adding toolbars and similiar to firefox by making external addon installation harder. What i already found is the key extensions.autoDisableScopes=0.
What you can do is open firefox with command line options. And pass the file path to your xpi file, so you don't have to mess with all this internals you are over there.
So do this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "C:\my.xpi"
and on launch it will open a tab and prompt to install your addon.
In the prefs.js:
pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 14); // 0x1 not set
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Installing_extensions#Disabling_install_locations
Then put the addons into extensions/myaddonid.xpi, making sure the filename is the id given in the install.rdf file inside the addon.xpi (zip-)file as <em:id>addon_id</em:id> tag.
On the next start the addons will be silently installed. Some addons needed one restart to work, at least the toolbar buttons were not added on the first start.
Not sure, if this will still work, when firefox decides to allow only addons signed by addons.mozilla.org. On the other hand, they will allow self-hosting addons, as soon as they are signed by AMO, so preinstalling addons downloaded from there will have a good chance.