Ansible role: Firefox

DEPRECATED: this project is not maintained anymore in favor direct installation with nix package manager and Nixpkgs.

Installs Firefox from official PPA repository and optionally creates profiles with extensions. Extensions are installed but need to be manually enabled from Firefox.

Note: on Debian it will remove the ESR version in favor to PPA more up-to-date releases.

Requirements

requests is required on the remote host to install extensions. The OS of the remote host is supported, see ansible-galaxy staticdev/firefox.

Role Variables

Default directory for profiles

firefox_home: ~/.mozilla/firefox

Profile settings

The firefox_profiles is object with profile names als fields. For each profile, a list of extension names can be specified under the field extensions. These extensions will be installed for that profiles. Secondly, a list of preference key-value pairs can be specified under the field preferences. These are also profile-specific and will be put or modified in the user.js file of the profile.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost

  vars:
    firefox_profiles:
      default:
        extensions:
          - ublock-origin
        preferences:
          network.cookie.cookieBehavior: 1
          privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: true
          datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled: false
      secondprofile:
        extensions:
          - adblock-plus
        preferences:
          privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: false
          privacy.trackingprotection.enabled: false
          signon.rememberSignons: false
          datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled: false

  roles:
    - staticdev.firefox

License

MIT

Author Information

staticdev

Credits

This Ansible role is a modified version of the ansible-firefox originally created by GitHub user unrblt and modified by basvandenbrink.