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3.1. Hacks 22-32

This chapter deconstructs the Firefox installation process. The
standard install process is designed for minimum fuss. It is designed
so that ordinary users don't have to think. If you
don't feel ordinary, or if you have special
constraints placed upon you, then you need to mess that standard
installation up. This chapter explains how.

Install is just another way of saying
deploy.
To deploy Firefox is to bed down all its numerous files into spots
where they can do some good. That might be on a local disk, on a
server, wrapped up into an installable bundle, or perhaps more
esoteric possibilities. There are also many small configuration
changes you can make after the standard install completes. You
don't have to build a whole, alternate installation
system; you can just modify the current install in place.

In the introduction to Chapter 1, we touched
briefly on the profile and installation areas that Firefox maintains.
If you skipped that bit, have a quick look at Table 1-1 before reading on here.