[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR Offline Patching solution.

[Paul Kosinski]

Lot's of the methods these days for configuring Firefox seem to be
Windows only. Is Linux Firefox being left out in the cold?



On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:56:34 +0200
Alexandre GAUVRIT <agauvrit at tranquil.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There is also an Open-Source alternative to SCCM which can fulfill
> your need, it's WAPT Deployment software.
> 
> The store provides pre-made Firefox and Firefox ESR packages :
> https://store.wapt.fr/store/?search=Firefox&sort=popular
> 
> If your scope of endpoint is out of SCCM scope, it can be a good
> solution
> 
> Alexandre
> 
> Le 29/07/2019 à 17:47, Éric Périard a écrit :
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> > I work in a border-line paranoid secure environment where we make
> > use of air-gapped PAW (/Privileged Access Workstations/) to
> > administer the network.
> >
> >  
> >
> > The issue is well… it’s air-gapped, meaning there’s no access to the
> > internet at all from those workstations and everything is tightly
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> > Also to deploy the updates, */_I use SCCM_/*. For end-user systems
> > we whitelist the access so browsers can update themselves however
> > that’s not possible for the PAW’s.
> >
> >  
> >
> > So I’ve got a few questions:
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> >  
> >
> > 1.       Is there a GPO or some kind of solution to redirect where
> > Firefox ESR fetches it’s update? */(Without trying to spoof URLs
> > which I’m sure change often)/*
> >
> > 2.       Where would I get the update patches instead of the entire
> > installer EXE?
> >
> > 3.       Is above possible at all?
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> > Thank you as always….
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