Ansible Role: Firefox

Installs firefox and optionally creates profiles with extensions. Extensions are installed but need to be manually enabled from firefox. It's only been tested in Ubuntu, but should work on other systems as long as you set the right packages in firefox_packages.

Requirements

xmltodict and requests are required on the remote host to install extensions.

Role Variables

firefox_home: ~/.mozilla/firefox

Default directory for profiles.

firefox_packages:
  - firefox
  - firefox-locale-en
  - firefox-locale-es

Packages to install.

firefox_profiles: []
#  - name: alice
#    extensions:
#      - random-agent-spoofer
#  - name: bob
#    extensions: []

List of profiles with extensions. extensions is a list of extension names to download and it needs to be defined (use an empty list if you don't want to install any extensions).

firefox_preferences: {}
#  browser.safebrowsing.enabled: 'false'

Dictionary with preference and value. This preferences are written to a user.js file in the profile directory which means any change you make to that setting in the options and preference dialogs or via about:config will be lost when you restart firefox. This settings apply to every profile.

firefox_profile_preferences: {}
#  alice:
#    browser.safebrowsing.enabled: 'false'
#    browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled: 'false'

Dictionary with preference and value (keyed by profile name). This preferences will be merged with firefox_preferences.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost

  vars:
    firefox_profiles:
      - name: alice
        extensions:
          - random-agent-spoofer
          - https-everywhere
          - noscript
      - name: bob
        extensions: []
    firefox_preferences:
      browser.safebrowsing.enabled: 'true'
      geo.ip: 'false'
      browser.search.defaultenginename: "'DuckDuckGo'"
    firefox_profile_preferences:
      alice:
        browser.safebrowsing.enabled: 'false'
        browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled: 'false'

  pre_tasks:
    - name: install role requirements
      pip: name={{ item }} state=present
      with_items:
        - xmltodict
        - requests

  roles:
     - firefox

License

GPLv2