Ansible Role: Firefox

Installs firefox and optionally creates profiles with extensions. Extensions are installed but need to be manually enabled from firefox.

Requirements

requests is required on the remote host to install extensions.

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:
          privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: "true"
          privacy.trackingprotection.enabled: "true"
          signon.rememberSignons: "false"
          datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled: "false"
      bob:
        extensions:
          - adblock-plus
        preferences:
          privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: "false"
          privacy.trackingprotection.enabled: "false"
          signon.rememberSignons: "false"
          datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled: "false"

  roles:
     - basvandenbrink.firefox

Credits

This Ansible role is a heavily modified version of the Ansible role created by GitHub user unrblt.

License

GPLv2