{"id":102,"date":"2006-07-17T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T20:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2006-07-17\/packaging-firefox-with-customizations\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T15:12:34","slug":"packaging-firefox-with-customizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2006-07-17\/packaging-firefox-with-customizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Packaging Firefox With Customizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/cck\/firefox\/\">CCK<\/a> (Client Customization Kit) is a tool that is useful for corporate system administrators and Mozilla partners who want to distribute Firefox with customizations for a particular environment. This allows customizations such as changing the default homepage, adding a search plugin, and even changing the default proxy settings.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve created a CCK extension, however, there wasn&#8217;t an easy way to package up Firefox with customizations for distribution. I&#8217;ve written a utility which can accomplish this task. This tool can take the official Windows, Mac, and Linux builds of Firefox 1.5.0.4 and repackage them with an additional extension.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Basil Hashem has written up a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox_Rebranding\">set of directions for rebranding Firefox<\/a>, and I have some additional notes about my tool below.<\/p>\n<h4>Download<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/tests\/CCK-repack.dmg\">CCK-repack.dmg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/svn.smedbergs.us\/cck-repack\/trunk\/\">Source code<\/a> (MPL\/LGPL\/GPL tri-licensed)<\/p>\n<h4>Notes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>For the moment, this tool only <strong>runs<\/strong> on mac, because that&#8217;s the only platform which can mount and create DMGs. It shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to modify the tool to run on Windows if you only want to repackage a Windows installer. Patches accepted.\n<li>To work on Windows, the extension must include an <code>install.js<\/code> file in addition to <code>install.rdf<\/code>. All extensions generated by the CCK do this automatically. It&#8217;s possible that future versions could auto-generate an install.js. Patches accepted.\n<li>For the moment, the tool only works on single extensions; it will not install a &#8220;multi-item package&#8221; correctly. This means that when you&#8217;re running the CCK wizard, you cannot add any items to the &#8220;Extensions\/Themes&#8221; panel. This is not especially hard to fix; patches accepted.\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Warning<\/h4>\n<p><strong>It is a violation of the Mozilla license and trademark to distribute customized builds created with this tool outside of your organization without a written agreement with the Mozilla corporation.<\/strong> Contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@mozilla.org\">licensing@mozilla.org<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CCK (Client Customization Kit) is a tool that is useful for corporate system administrators and Mozilla partners who want to distribute Firefox with customizations for a particular environment. This allows customizations such as changing the default homepage, adding a search plugin, and even changing the default proxy settings. Once you&#8217;ve created a CCK extension, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","tag-release-repackager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}