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How can I set default toolbar layout for all users in my system?

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Hi everybody! I am running a local ubuntu server at my office. I can set some defaults preferences (about:config) for all new users in the system by defining those prefs in the /etc/firefox/syspref.js. Now, I want to define default toolbar layout in a similar way (maybe not needed but fun), to copy the toolbar layout for my user. Is there a general way to do that? thank you in advance!

Hi everybody! I am running a local ubuntu server at my office. I can set some defaults preferences (about:config) for all new users in the system by defining those prefs in the /etc/firefox/syspref.js. Now, I want to define default toolbar layout in a similar way (maybe not needed but fun), to copy the toolbar layout for my user. Is there a general way to do that? thank you in advance!

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thankyou for your help, cor-el! I had seen that page, but it is not specified how to make a default localstore.rdf. Coping the file manualy to every new user firefox profile is not what I am looking for. However, I tried to solve the problem saving a clean profile at /etc/skel . Just for the record, what I did is to copy the $HOME/.mozilla/ to /etc/skel. Then, modify the profile folder to some suitable name, for example:

mv /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/<somestring>.default /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/new.default


Then I remove everything that is not needed insede the profile, leaving only the localstore.rdf, I also left the extensions and search engine folder (because I recommend duckduckgo as default search engine).

for every new user, it kind of work, but not exactly. for example, I save a localstore.rdf without home buttons, but for new users a home button is included in the toolbar, so I guess I am missing something.

In the other hand, this procedure will not help if , for example, I created new profiles for existing users (which is desirable for many reasons).

I will appreciate any further help!

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You can try to create a default template folder (defaults/profile) in the Firefox and place the file(s) in that folder for newly created profile.

The only way to customize an existing profile is to copy files directly to it.

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Thankyou cor-el. Following your suggestion, I created a folder:

/usr/lib/firefox-<version>/defaults/profile

and copied a template profile files there. For instance, there I have the following files and folders:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2012-03-26 15:28 chrome

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2012-03-26 15:28 extensions

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2012-03-26 15:28 searchplugins

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14K 2012-03-26 15:28 search.json

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K 2012-03-26 15:28 localstore.rdf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96K 2012-03-26 15:28 chromeappsstore.sqlite

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K 2012-03-26 15:28 search.sqlite


with those files, I have my search engines and 'overall' toolbar layout, and I made some tests where extensions can also be exported by copying the 'extensions' folder and extensions.{sqlite,rdf} files. This methods behaves more or less the way I want. The thing is, I still have the same problems as explained above, that is, some buttons that are not present in the original template profile, are present in the new profile ( for example if I delete the 'getting started' or 'home button', they show up the new profile). I think it has to do with te bar selections from right click menu on the toolbar.

Modified by Erchamion