Firebird (Firefox Browser & Thunderbird Mailclient)

This role was created to install Firefox and Thunderbird to noble_desktop.

General

This role consists of six main steps:

• Uninstalls snap Firefox and Thunderbird
• Only uninstalls snap Firefox and Thunderbird if snap_remove equals false
• Snap_remove checks whether Snap is installed or not. Snap_remove == false → Snap is still installed → therefore remove Snap Firefox and Thunderbird

#snap remove firefox
- name: snap remove firefox
  community.general.snap:
    name: firefox
    state: absent
  become: true
  when: snap_remove == false

#snap remove thunderbird
- name: snap remove thunderbird
  community.general.snap:
    name: thunderbird
    state: absent
  become: true
  when: snap_remove == false

• Get apt signing key for Mozilla PPA Repo, use trusted.gpg.d folder as keyring

 #if the system is behind a apt proxy the key has to be requested through the proxy aswell
- name: get apt signing key for zabbix Repo over proxy
  command: apt-key adv --keyserver-options http-proxy={{proxy_custom}} --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys {{Jammy_firebird_mozilla_ppa_key_id}}
  become: yes
  when: (apt_proxy == true) or (proxy_apt == true)

- name: get apt signing key for Mozilla PPA Repo
  apt_key:
    url: https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x{{Jammy_firebird_mozilla_ppa_key_id}}
    state: present
    keyring: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mozilla-ppa-repo.gpg
  become: true

• Adds Mozilla ppa

#add firefox PPA
- name: add firefox PPA
  ansible.builtin.apt_repository:
    repo: ppa:mozillateam/ppa #new syntax to also fetch gpgp-sining-key 
    state: present
    update_cache: yes
  become: true

• Sets high priority for Firefox and Thunderbird installation to added ppa
• Copies a template file called 99mozillateamppa to /etc/apt/preferences.d

#set higher priority for firefox and thunderbird package from this PPA
- name: Copy 99mozillateamppa to /etc/apt/preferences.d to set priority for firefox package from added PPA
  template:
    src: 99mozillateamppa
    dest: /etc/apt/preferences.d/99mozillateamppa
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: 0644
    force: true
  when: firefox_conf == true or thunderbird_conf == true
  become: true

• Installs Firefox as deb

#install firefox as deb
- name: Install firefox
  ansible.builtin.apt:
    name: firefox
    state: present
  when: firefox_conf == true
  become: true

• Adds adblock plus to Firefox (opt-in)
• copies folder (the folder name is the ID of the addon found in the manifest.json file) with extracted addon xpi file to /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/.....

#Copy Adblock Plus Addon into Adblock folder
- name: Copy Adblock Plus Addon into Adblock folder
  copy:
    src: ./{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
    dest: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: 0644
    force: true
  when: adblock_conf == true
  become: true

• Installs Thunderbird as deb

#install thunderbird as deb
- name: Install thunderbird
  ansible.builtin.apt:
    name: thunderbird
    state: present
  when: thunderbird_conf == true
  become: true

Dependencies

Role Dependencies

Package Dependencies

Role Variables

Name	Type	Default value	Purpose	Comment	Role
firefox_conf	Boolean	false	If set to true in inventory file, this variable will install firefox as deb	-	noble_firebird
thunderbird_conf	Boolean	false	If set to true in inventory file, this variable will install firefox as deb	-	noble_firebird
adblock_conf	Boolean	false	If set to true in inventory file, this variable will add the adblock plus addon to firefox	-	noble_firebird
snap_remove	Boolean	true	Indicates if snapd is to be removed or installed	This variable is from the noble_snap role and under general in this wiki page it is explained on why this variable is used in this role	noble_snap
Jammy_firebird_mozilla_ppa_key_id	String	0AB215679C571D1C8325275B9BDB3D89CE49EC21	Get apt signing key for Mozilla PPA Repo, use trusted.gpg.d folder as keyring	-	noble_firebird

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: username.rolename, x: 42 }

License

BSD

Author Information

Maintainer: Niels Dill

Support-Contact: s4d-linux-support@id.ethz.ch