orrinfacey01: Reset Firefox preserving bookmarks on many machines

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Reset Firefox preserving bookmarks on many machines

Sometimes, Firefox bounces in the Dock and will not open. Either a new Firefox version has been pushed out to the machine, or some Firefox settings have changed. If it's on a personal machine, it's pretty easy to handle. What if it happens on a corporate network with many users, and you must repair them all?

Here is a solution so that a user clicks on the Scripts menu in the menu bar and selects a script from a drop down menu called Reset Firefox.

A pop-up dialog box asks the user 'Do you wish to reset Firefox,' with Yes and No buttons. The user clicks Yes and another dialog pops up 'Just leave the script to do its stuff. Firefox will open with instructions on how to restore your Bookmarks.' with an OK button.

The user clicks OK and waits, and after a short period, Firefox opens as a new user would see it asking the normal setup questions like do you wish to import anything, set the default browser, etc. Then a web page automatically opens which is a Mozi ...