Firefox CCK

May 12th, 2006 at 4:00am — Rating: — Link

Most ISPs can now have the upper hand by providing their customers with a customized version of Firefox. The extension is a wizard that takes them step-by-step on making an extension that changes their Firefox to match how they want it distributed.

The changes you can make to the browser are as follows:

• Add identifer to the user agent string
• Change the default home page and startup override home page
• Change the title bar text
• Change the animated logo
• Change the web page and tooltip used for the animated logo
• Add a help menu item that links to a web page
• Provide sites for which popups and XPInstalls are allowed by default
• Preinstall browser plug-ins
• Preinstall search engines
• Add folders, bookmarks and live bookmarks to the personal toolbar
• Add folders, bookmarks and live bookmarks to the bookmarks folder
• Set default preferences
• Lock preferences
• Add registry keys (Windows only)
• Add certificates (See NOTE below)
• Set default proxy configurations
• Package other XPIs with your distribution
• Disable about:config

If I was a web hosting company, I would be jumping all over this by providing a slick user theme and add the company logo to the browser. The Firefox CCK extension can make quick work for a Firefox client distribution.

Rating: 4/5.