Firefox CE, and user profiles

joshbuss · Post by **joshbuss** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:43 am

Hello, my name is Joshua Buss. I am new to runing Firefox in the corporate enviorment, and I am currently running Frontmotion's FireFox Community Edition, with the ADM templates installed on my active directory server.

Now I love how this is working, flawlessly, but I also run a program called DeepFreeze by Faronics. This program deletes all system changes and any file modifications on the local machines upon a reboot. This poses a problem, because the FireFox profiles are wiped everytime. I do have Homefolders through my active directory server.

My question is this, is there ANY way to make the user's FireFox profile, run from the user's homedrive?

Post by **DraconPern** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:16 am

Unfortunately, not at the moment. You can only specify bookmark, cache, etc., but not the profile.

Trippynet · Post by **Trippynet** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:53 am

You might be able to make it work using a logon and logoff script which copies their profile from and to their home drive when they use a system. If you aren't bothered about retaining most of the settings, it's quite simple to fool Firefox into thinking that an existing profile exists upon logon simply by creating a few folders in %userprofile% and adding a modified profiles.ini file. This is what I've done at my place of work with a login script and as a result, this kills such annoyances as the "import wizard" etc.