• Mass Deployment

    Deploying and Managing Firefox Part 2: Working with Munki

    June 5, 2012

    A special thanks to Nick McSpadden for his third submission to krypted.com. With all the new changes in OS X/Server I haven’t even had time to write as many in such a span!!! This is a follow up post to the Firefox Management guide. Knowing how to use the CCK to manage Firefox, the next big question is: how do we get this into Munki? It’s unfortunately not as cut and paste as we’d hope, because, with all things, Firefox tends to make us do a bit of work to get what we want from it. Importing Firefox 10.0.10 ESR (current version as of writing time) into Munki is easy. You…

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  • Mass Deployment

    Deploying and Managing Google Chrome: The Rough Guide

    May 19, 2012

    The following is a post from the most excellent Nick McSpadden. It is very well written and I am proud that it is the first article published on this site using the new submissions page. Looks like it’s time to change the banner from my Notes from the Underground, er, I mean, Field, to just Notes from the Field! Greetings! This is a sort of follow-up to my guide on managing Firefox, this time focusing on managing Google Chrome. I’m working on current Chrome version 18 (which just today got updated to 19), and I don’t know for sure how far back this will work, but I think anything higher…

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  • Mass Deployment

    Deploying and Managing Firefox: The Rough Guide

    May 18, 2012

    Another Great Article Submitted From Nick McSpadden: After working with this for a bit, I’ve come up with a step by step installation process for Firefox 10 ESR + CCK deployment on Mac OS. Firefox CCK Guide – Part I Most of the information about add-ons that you’ll need is in Mike Kaply’s blog: Integrating Add-ons into Firefox 1) Install CCK Wizard in Firefox 10 ESR 2) Run and configure CCK Wizard the way you want 3) Save the CCK data into a “CCK” folder anywhere you’d like.  This folder will contain: cck.config cck.xpi xpi/ directory 4) When done, open up CCK/xpi.config 5) Copy the contents of the id=<name> key…

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  • Mac OS X

    Programmatically Changing the Mac OS X Browser

    December 12, 2009

    I am starting to get a lot questions on how to change the default browser for Mac OS X. I don’t know if it’s in preparation for summer imaging or if it’s because people clicked the button to reset their default browser to Chrome and then realized that, while fast, it just isn’t Safari. Either way, the default browser is stored in the com.apple.LaunchServices.plist, inside the LSHandlers array. Now, changing this with a defaults command would involve copying all the information into said command and then dumping it back in after changing all entries of com.apple.safari to the information for the browser you actually want to use. If you do…

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