Where is Firefox 60.0.2 ESR 64-bit in Patch manager?

I approved Mozilla Firefox 60.0.2 ESR to just our IT test group. I checked for updates and it did find it and install it.

I opened Firefox by my desktop icon and there was no indication it was ESR. It was just Firefox Quantum 60.0.2 (64-bit).

I then opened a second Firefox Quantum icon on my desktop and that showed that I am currently on the esr update channel, great... however it shows 60.0.2 (32-bit).

I want to push out the 64-bit since all of our machines in the org are running a 64bit machine. Isn't that the best practice? Or is 32-bit good enough to push out to everyone?

The shortcut to the 32-bit ESR Firefox is: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

The shortcut to the 64-bit regular Firefox Quantum is: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

What's best practice and what should I do?

I know for Java, we push out both the 64-bit AND the 32-bit.

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kjstech

Well it seems that if I edit the package I can alter the package download path to this location:

download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/60.0.2esr/win64/en-US/Firefox Setup 60.0.2esr.exe as opposed to the folder win32. I redownloaded it and I'm going to test.

You should update the catalog to reference that version and add an (x86) version that points to the win32 folder.

kjstech

Package Manger changed it back to the 32 bit path.

We really want to standardize and deploy the 64 bit version of Firefox Quantum ESR. I guess I will open a support ticket.

kjstech

Instead of modifying the existing, I copied both the install and upgrade of Firefox 60.0.2 ESR. In the paths I altered it to point to the x64 folder of 60.1.0 ESR and I followed the logic mirroring how other firefox x64 installers were doing, also carefully checking my own registry. So I saved them as Microsoft Firefox 60.1.0 (x64) ESR (Upgrade) and Microsoft Firefox 60.1.0 (x64) ESR. I will approve them just to the IT department and do some testing.

kjstech

I'm not sure whats wrong. I can get it to install on some pc's and can't get it on others.

I tried pushing it on a test VM that has regular Firefox Quantum 60.0.1 (x64) since the ESR 64bit package of 60.1 just would not come up in Windows update, then I get this:

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Object: Mozilla Firefox 60.1.0 (x64) ESR
Status: Not Applicable

Details: Update not applicable. Unable to find the Update by ID to perform the requested operation. The update may not be applicable for the selected computer Result Code: 0x80240003

But on another computer I was getting "The installer encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2324." once clicking on the firefox desktop icon. I removed all versions of firefox on that machine and there was an old ESR 52 on there that no longer opens nor is it listed in appwiz.cpl. SO I ran Windows update on that again and it installed just the 32-bit of Firefox ESR.

I wish Solarwinds would just maintain the ESR packages in both 64 and 32 bit. Even if I get this working, I will have to be the sole maintaner of it going forward for every single ESR release of 64-bit Firefox until Solarwinds gets off their lazy behinds.

kjstech

Ok I got this package that I made "Mozilla Firefox 60.1.0 (x64) ESR" to apply to modifying the Applicability rules.

The last line was File Exists (NOT)
PROGRAM_FILES
..\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

I filled in the version field 60.1.0.6746 instead of leaving it blank. The issue is that what if there is an update and the version some day becomes 61.0.0.0000, well then this is going to think it needs to apply again.

I guess I will play with adding a 4th applicability rule. I need not only to know if the file exists, but if the version is lower than 60.1.0.6746.

kjstech

Yup that worked, now my other machine that had an issue was able to find Firefox ESR 64bit via windows update.

Issue seems to be that C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe already existed. Though it was the 64-bit NON ESR, so I want that GONE.

Adding the additional line version checked the file.

Here is the xml

-<sdp:ApplicabilityRule SchemaVersion="1.0">

-<lar:And>

<bar:Processor Architecture="9"/>

<bar:RegSzToVersion Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox ESR"Value=""RegType32="false"Comparison="LessThan"Data="60.1.0.0"/>

-<lar:Not>

<bar:FileExists Path="..\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"Csidl="38"Version="60.1.0.6746"/>

</lar:Not>

-<lar:Not>

<bar:FileVersion Path="..\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"Csidl="38"Comparison="GreaterThanOrEqualTo"Version="60.1.0.6746"/>

</lar:Not>

</lar:And>

</sdp:ApplicabilityRule>

And the Installed rules

-<sdp:InstalledRule SchemaVersion="1.0">

-<lar:And>

<bar:RegSz Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox ESR"Value=""RegType32="false"Comparison="EqualTo"Data="60.1.0"/>

<bar:Processor Architecture="9"/>

</lar:And>

</sdp:InstalledRule>

The upgrade version of this is a little different in the Applicability section:

-<sdp:ApplicabilityRule SchemaVersion="1.0">

-<lar:And>

<bar:Processor Architecture="9"/>

<bar:RegSzToVersion Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox ESR"Value=""RegType32="false"Comparison="LessThan"Data="60.1.0.0"/>

<bar:RegKeyExists Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox ESR"RegType32="false"/>

<bar:FileExists Path="..\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"Csidl="38"/>

</lar:And>

</sdp:ApplicabilityRule>

and here is the upgrade versions Installed rules:

-<sdp:InstalledRule SchemaVersion="1.0">

-<lar:And>

<bar:Processor Architecture="9"/>

<bar:RegSz Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox ESR"Value=""RegType32="false"Comparison="EqualTo"Data="60.1.0"/>

</lar:And>

</sdp:InstalledRule>

Hope this helps someone out there, also if anyone has more insight or a better way to do it, please feel free to let me know!