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Thought I’d pass along that Firefox ESR 52.7.3 was released today. I was able to push it to 30 or so machines immediately in seconds, and the rest should get it when people close out of Firefox. A Ninite Pro success story.

Michael

One example in which Ninite performs better then CSI (Cornell is using within CM), for our needs

Q: Chemistry IT has been trying to move our users from Firefox 32-bit to 64-bit. As part of this transition, we uninstall 32-bit, but it appears these machines are getting patched by CM and 32-bit gets reinstalled. Is there anything we can do to stop this?

A: Keene Silfer, Desktop Engineering.
Incident INC000002216166
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Subject: Re: Incident INC000002216166, 'A&S Chemistry - Firefox CM patching
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Check to see if there's a copy of the 32-bit Firefox .EXE file somewhere on the computer's hard drive (maybe in the Windows.old folder).
 
Since the CSI patches are path-based, if the CSI client detects that .EXE file somewhere on the hard drive, and that path gets added to the applicability metadata of the patch, it will end up "reinstalling" 32-bit Firefox as it attempts to patch that not-really-installed Firefox.