firefox Cookbook

This cookbook installs the latest version of Firefox by default. You can also specify a specific version, e.g. 33.0.1. Windows and Mac OS X platforms provide an option to select a specific language with en-US being the default. A firefox_version method is also available to retrieve exact version installed.

Requirements

Chef

• Chef 11+

Platforms

• CentOS/RHEL
• Mac OS X
• Ubuntu
• Windows

Cookbooks:

• suggests windows
• suggests dmg

These cookbooks are referenced with suggests instead of depends, so be sure to upload the cookbook that applies to target platform.

• dmg
• windows

Attributes

• version - Version of firefox to download. Default is latest.
• lang - Language of firefox to install. Windows and Mac OS X only. Default is en-US.
• releases_url - URL for the releases directory for use by Windows and Mac OS X only. Linux platforms use package manager.

Usage

Include the default recipe on a node's runlist to ensure that Firefox is installed.

The following example retrieves the version installed by using firefox_version method:

v = firefox_version

License and Author

Author:: Tim Smith(<tsmith84@gmail.com>)

Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2012 Webtrends Inc
Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2014 Limelight Networks, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.