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Hi
I have a requirement to enable auto update of firefox with intune. So do i need to push firefox from intune for the same or auto update can be applied to the firefox app which is installed from internet sites by the user?
What happens if i push firefox recent version from intune to devices which are already having the firefox apps installed?
Please help me to find the answer
Thank you
Yes. Firefox has no knowledge of or dependency on Intune. The ADMX ultimately just sets registry values that Mozilla has defined Firefox to use and to control its functionality. The method that those values get set is irrelevant.
As for re-running the installer, that's up to the installer. As noted, all Intune does is run a command line. What that command line does has nothing to do with Intune.
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By default, Firefox updates automatically https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-release
If needed, you can try get the MSI and push it out as a Win32 app to update it automatically.
This really has nothing to do with Intune. All Intune can do is run a command line that you provide against a set of source files. What that command line is up to the author of the code that the command line runs and is completely outside the scope of control or visibility of Intune. Thus, whether or not Firefox auto-updates and how it does so is up to Mozilla and not Intune. If Mozilla has provided a channel to control Firefox via registry values, scripts, file changes, an ADMX or anything similar, then conceivably, you could use Intune to control this behavior but by default, Intune in no way knows how to control any random app (no matter how popular that app may be).
The information provided by @Nick Hogarth may get you started here, but keep in mind as noted, this is specific to Firefox and not Intune.
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@Rounak ck Thanks for posting in our Q&A.
what jason said is very well and detailed. Additionally if you want to manage firefox automatic updates by pushing win32 apps, there are some small details to pay attention to.
If we deploy Win32 apps as required to all our Windows devices, we can just update our application package and deploy it to the same group of devices as required.
The current installed version will be updated with the latest version.
But if we made it as available, then the update will fail. It must be noted that we must re-push the profile every time you update the version.
Thank you Jason. I could see admx for firefox auto update.as of now, firefox is not pushed from intune and users only installed manually from internet site, so if we apply admx, does it work for user installed firefox app or for admx we need to push firefox from intune?
One more question, what happens if we push firefox from intune to the system which are already having different or same firefox versions installed manually?