Mozilla Maintenance Service Command Line

The service security is modified with a special ace which allows non elevated processes to start and stop it.

Mozilla maintenance service command line. For example if you have multiple profiles you can use command line configuration options to bypass the profile manager and open a specific profile. To learn more see the s option in this command line options document about full installer configurations. In the target input box of the shortcut tab put the command option after the quote for example c program files internet mozilla mozilla exe p myprofile. Hi i just installed ff 47 and someone mentioned that some users have uninstalled the mozilla maintenance service part of the new ff.

Select options from the drop down menu. Using the full installer from the command line will implicitly enable silent mode. How to uninstall silently. This will effectively prevent users from installing firefox updates if they do not have write permissions to the installation directory.

Apparently you can un check that during a custom installation but i installed as a regular installation so i wasn t presented that option. If you would install beta then you get the version that comes with beta. Silent installation is enabled by the s option. How does the mozilla maintenance service work.

Open the menu in the upper right corner of the program window. Disable the maintenance service install maintenance service true false set to false to disable installing the mozilla maintenance service. Until that time the service doesn t run so it doesn t use any computer resources and once the update. When firefox or thunderbird downloads an application update the mozilla maintenance service gets permission from windows to allow the update to be applied without requiring you to click yes in the windows user account control uac dialog.

The mozilla maintenance service installs in its own folder and is always the version that comes with the most recent firefox version i e. The command line parameters for msiexec exe. How to disable or remove mozilla firefox maintenance service. Command line options are used to specify various startup options for mozilla applications.

To uninstall firefox for enterprise silently you have to uninstall from the. On linux or unix type the command option after the mozilla command for example mozilla p myprofile. Since the service is only started when needed we pass the information to the service via command line on service start. It appears as mozilla maintenance service in the list of windows services to find it type services msc in the windows 10 8 7 vista search box and click on services msc in the search results the startup type is manual i e.

Setting these permissions on the service is needed because by default services can only be started and stopped by elevated processes.