Firefox 68 ESR x64 plugin

After a longer hiatus here comes a new revision of my renowned Firefox plugin series, it has been rewritten for Firefox ESR 68.x.
It now focusses on Mozilla Policies and is a new plugin which isn't backward compatible any longer, I also dropped 32 bit compatibility.
If you like to give it a go, you can get it under the following link.

Bug reports and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
Cheers!

for x86 and x64 support

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If,%SourceArch%,equal,x86,set,%PArch%,Win32

If,%SourceArch%,equal,x64,set,%PArch%,Win64



Set,%SetupURL%,"https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-next-latest-ssl&os=%PArch%&lang=%Localised%"

Hi Mikka,
It's been a while, good to see you 

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on Firefox here and for your plugin

I only use Win10XPE now, I'm not going to be able to give you feedback on the plugin itself.
But by reading your script, I was able to build it manually for Win10XPE with policies.json and Mozilla.cfg
It works without the need to pre-create profiles and it is very complete, nice works

However, I failed to auto import and load bookmarks.html without profiles
Do you know if there is a way to do it without a profile ?

Tested witk uBlock Origin extension, it is well installed even without activate.js
Is it still required with Quantum ?

Hi ChrisR,

you just found a bug!

During development I noticed that the setting

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lockPref("browser.places.importBookmarksHTML", true);

in the file Mozilla.cfg doesn't work any more, it will be set to false on Firefox start.

I haven't yet checked Bugzilla if someone has already reported that (I'd have to register first to do that).
But it should be a bug, as the counterpart browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML still works.

Mozilla has changed several things in Quantum for deployment, for instance profile customisation isn't supported.
I might provide a more customisable policies.json in an upcoming version of the plugin, though.

@James:
For now I won't add 32 bit compatibility as I merely use 64 bit builds of Win81SE (and far less than in the past).

what works for us is - we pre-created the profile

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\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Installs.ini
\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles.ini
//
\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\5j1uqirh.Default-User
\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\y3iddc2e.default-release
//
\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\5j1uqirh.Default-User\bookmarks.html
\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\5j1uqirh.Default-User\user.js

And we create User.js

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// Import Bookmarks HTML
user_pref("browser.places.importBookmarksHTML", true);

I found for loading bookmarks.html at startup with Mikka configuration
In policies.json, you must delete the line:

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"NoDefaultBookmarks": true,

By placing bookmarks.html in the installation folder, next to Firefox.exe, Import and Export bookmarks works with in Mozilla.cfg
 

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lockPref("browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML", true);
pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "Y:\\Programs\\Mozilla Firefox Quantum ESR_x64\\bookmarks.html");
//pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "X:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox Quantum ESR_x64\\bookmarks.html");
lockPref("browser.bookmarks.max_backups", 0);
pref("browser.bookmarks.overwrite", true);
lockPref("browser.places.importBookmarksHTML", true);
pref("browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion", 3);

The 2 ways are available, without profile or with the 2 pre-created profiles

By placing bookmarks.html in the installation folder, next to Firefox.exe, Import and Export bookmarks works with in Mozilla.cfg

without profile

Chris, thanks alot for solving this bug, the customised bookmarks option works now.
Concerning activate.js, I haven't yet verified whether it might be dropped or not, I shall keep it for now.

James: Okay, so mimicking an existing profile is still feasible, however I'd have preferred doing that e.g. via policies.js.
Given the new deployment means I'm astonished Mozilla didn't think of that themselves.

Chris: Fortunately, there's little left that needs to be fixed by applying appropriate profile folder settings
(maybe xulstore.json adjustments and extensions' settings).

By the way, in another thread I read that there are Audio problems using Quantum for a different project than Win81SE.
Being lazy I merely use the latter (never touch a running SE...), could you elaborate the error?
For example, I merely got sound in Quantum when surfing YouTube, many competing sites (html5) won't work.
Since I seldom need sound in an SE, I didn't investigate that matter further.

Hi Mikka,
Until recently, we didn't have any sound with FF Quantum
texervn has found a solution to get the sound with:

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defaultPref("security.sandbox.content.level", 2);

I don't know much more with Sandboxie but so, I get the sound now in youtube. I haven't tried with other html5 sites

The lowered security setting doesn't seem to be needed for Win81SE, which projects require the modification?
All projects that are based on Windows 10?

Win10XPE requires this modification 
Not tested but I guess Win10PESE or others projects that are based on Windows 10, need it too.

This update should fix both the bookmarks bug and the audio problem for W10 projects.
I've also added an experimental and basic search engine customisation.
Still missing: A default browser option and profile customisation.

Update: New plugin version attached (improved search engine customisation).

Version 5 of my plugin is out.

What's new:

• Code optimisations
• Revision of mozilla.cfg
• Deployment sample* for extension uBlock Origin according to Mozilla's deployment technique

* Maybe a future choice for advanced users – I haven't yet decided on the details, suggestions welcome.