Based on advice, I did not choose to rent their modem and bought my own from Amazon: Motorola SB6121 and it worked great. There is an older model SB6120 that is a bit cheaper, but my friend had problems. Please check with the technician and confirm that those models work in your area.
Today, they came in and installed it for me. The overall process worked fine except for three complaints:
1. They kept calling for confirmation. In the past week, they called so many times for confirmation, 3 days before, yesterday, and this morning. I understand that some people might be forgetting things very quickly, but I am not that type of people. Plus, I have confirmed at the first call already and they are still calling as early as 7am in the morning! Since I did not get this morning's phone call, they left a message and said I would have to reschedule it, WTF. So, I ended up calling them again so they can send the technician in without rescheduling.
2. Some technicians are un-professional. I am quite busy with work and life, so my appointment is 8-10am, earliest I could get so I don't miss the work. For the first appointment, the technician waited outside for 1 hour before he came in (I saw his van and went out to tell him I am ready, but he kept sitting in his var for another half an hour). When he came in, I showed him where I want the setup and the pole to pull the signal from. He shrugged his shoulder and said "it will take at least 4-5 hours". I said I thought it'd be only 1-2 hours and I had no choice but to reschedule. Somehow from the look on his face, I felt that he did not want to do installation (bad mood, lazy, etc.) and I am fairly pissed. If you don't want to work, then don't come to waste your time and my time.
Today, another technician came in and he is much better. He finished the whole job in 1 hr and told me the previous technician "must be lazy".
3. The installation process forces you to install the desktop installer to activate. After the hardware is set up, I hooked up my wireless router and was directed to an activation page, which asked me to create a new Comcast user account. But the last step is to install Comcast desktop installer and there seems to be no way around according to the technician. (Update: according to my colleague, you don't need to install it, just restart the modem, shutdown router, connect router with modem, start the router. But I did not try this personally, not sure if it would work.)
The installer file is "ComcastDesktopInstaller_MMF3.pkg" in my case. I uploaded it online if you are interested. Luckily I unchecked "install browser toolbar" option during installation. People are suffering from this toolbar since it hijacks browser preferences and homepage. If you are the victim, please follow instructions on this page to get your previous setting restored.
The installer file is "ComcastDesktopInstaller_MMF3.pkg" in my case. I uploaded it online if you are interested. Luckily I unchecked "install browser toolbar" option during installation. People are suffering from this toolbar since it hijacks browser preferences and homepage. If you are the victim, please follow instructions on this page to get your previous setting restored.
After the network is up and running, I want to uninstall it but could not find much info. I did my best, and my conclusion is it might not do as much harm. It executed some Ruby scripts and installed some crap on the desktop, which you can delete easily.
Cleanup actions in summary:
1. Delete the two website shortcuts installed on my desktop.
2. Delete ~/.cim_install_log.
3. I am not familiar with Ruby, but the scripts seems to just create Xfinity bookmarks for Safari, Firefox and Chrome. For details in the script, see the gist below.
4. Besides those, I did not seem to find other suspicious malware or unwanted junks.
Cleanup actions in summary:
1. Delete the two website shortcuts installed on my desktop.
2. Delete ~/.cim_install_log.
3. I am not familiar with Ruby, but the scripts seems to just create Xfinity bookmarks for Safari, Firefox and Chrome. For details in the script, see the gist below.
4. Besides those, I did not seem to find other suspicious malware or unwanted junks.
Detailed checkups for the Comcast app:
1. Did a grep for "comcast" and found a log file in home directory: ~/.cim_install_log. It contains all the output during installation process.
2. Used AppCleaner to check installed applications, does not find any malicious app installed from Comcast installer.
3. Used pkgutil command to search for anything related to comcast in package receipt database. See pkgutil manpage for details how to use it. I could not find any new applications installed from this installer pkg.
4. Used Pacifist to check the content of the pkg file. Did not see much suspicious content except for several Ruby and shell scripts to run during installation.
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By default, these website shortcuts are install on your desktop, remove them
Content of ComcastDesktopInstaller_MMF3.pkg
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| #!/usr/bin/ruby | |
| # a script to add some bookmarks, loaded from an xml file | |
| require "rexml/document" | |
| require "json" | |
| require "plist" | |
| require "fileutils" | |
| ################## | |
| # helper functions | |
| ################## | |
| def write_number_as_two_digits(fixnum) | |
| str = "" | |
| if (fixnum < 10) | |
| str = "0"+fixnum.to_s | |
| else | |
| str = fixnum.to_s | |
| end | |
| return str | |
| end | |
| ################## | |
| # Begin Script | |
| ################## | |
| puts "\n\n\n----------------------------\n" | |
| puts "Begin add_bookmarks ruby script "+Time.now.to_s | |
| puts "version "+`cat version` | |
| puts "----------------------------\n" | |
| originalDirectory = File.dirname(File.expand_path($0)) | |
| puts "script running from "+originalDirectory+"\n\n" | |
| abs_path_to_utils = originalDirectory | |
| if (ARGV[0] != nil) | |
| abs_path_to_utils = ARGV[0] | |
| end | |
| ## | |
| ## Kill existing browser processes | |
| ## | |
| safariPID = `ps ux -w -w | awk '/Safari.app/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'` | |
| puts "safari PID = "+safariPID | |
| if (safariPID != "" && safariPID != nil) | |
| puts "killing Safari" | |
| `kill #{safariPID.to_s}` | |
| `sleep 2` | |
| end | |
| firefoxPID = `ps ux -w -w | awk '/Firefox.app/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'` | |
| puts "firefox PID = "+firefoxPID | |
| if (firefoxPID != "" && firefoxPID != nil) | |
| puts "killing Firefox" | |
| `kill #{firefoxPID.to_s}` | |
| `sleep 2` | |
| end | |
| chromePIDs = `ps ux -w -w | awk '/Chrome.app/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'` | |
| chromeOpened = false | |
| puts "chrome PID = "+chromePIDs | |
| chromePIDArray = chromePIDs.split("\n") | |
| chromePIDArray.each { |pid| | |
| if (pid != "" && pid != nil) | |
| puts "killing chrome process "+pid | |
| `kill #{pid.to_s}` | |
| chromeOpened=true | |
| end | |
| } | |
| if chromeOpened | |
| `sleep 2` | |
| end | |
| # load an xml file of the bookmarks | |
| # | |
| prefsXml = File.new("comcast_prefs.xml") | |
| doc = REXML::Document.new(prefsXml) | |
| bookmarksArray = [] | |
| homepage = REXML::Text.read_with_substitution(doc.get_elements("document/homepage/url")[0].get_text().to_s()) | |
| # homepage is special, and requires an appended parameter to representing the install date | |
| now = Time.now | |
| homepage = homepage + "&cid=insDate"+write_number_as_two_digits(now.month)+write_number_as_two_digits(now.day)+now.year.to_s | |
| searchProviderName = REXML::Text.read_with_substitution(doc.get_elements("document/searchProvider/title")[0].get_text().to_s()) | |
| searchProviderUrl = REXML::Text.read_with_substitution(doc.get_elements("document/searchProvider/searchUrl")[0].get_text().to_s()) | |
| searchProviderHomepage = REXML::Text.read_with_substitution(doc.get_elements("document/searchProvider/homepageUrl")[0].get_text().to_s()) | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| doc.get_elements("document/desktopShortcut").each { |shortcutNode| | |
| titleString = shortcutNode.get_elements("title")[0].get_text().to_s() | |
| urlString = REXML::Text.read_with_substitution(shortcutNode.get_elements("url")[0].get_text().to_s()) | |
| iconString = shortcutNode.get_elements("icon")[0].get_text().to_s() | |
| f = File.new("Desktop/#{titleString}.url","w") | |
| f.write("[InternetShortcut]\nURL="+urlString+"\n") | |
| f.close | |
| puts `"#{abs_path_to_utils}/setfileicon" "#{abs_path_to_utils}/#{iconString}" "#{f.path}"` | |
| puts `"#{abs_path_to_utils}/setfile" -a E "#{f.path}"` | |
| } | |
| end | |
| successURL = doc.get_elements("document/successURL")[0].get_text().to_s() | |
| f = File.new(abs_path_to_utils+"/successurl","w") | |
| f.write(successURL) | |
| prefsXml.close | |
| # build an array of all the bookmark objects | |
| doc.elements.each("document/bookmark") {|element| | |
| bookmark = {} | |
| bookmark["title"] = REXML::Text.read_with_substitution(element.get_elements("title")[0].get_text().to_s()) | |
| bookmark["url"] = REXML::Text.read_with_substitution(element.get_elements("url")[0].get_text().to_s()) | |
| bookmarksArray.push(bookmark) | |
| } | |
| # debug: | |
| # | |
| puts "\nhomepage - "+homepage | |
| puts "\nsearch: "+searchProviderName+" - "+searchProviderUrl | |
| bookmarksArray.each {|bookmark| | |
| puts "\n" | |
| puts bookmark["title"]+" - "+bookmark["url"] | |
| } | |
| ############## | |
| # Chrome | |
| ############## | |
| #relative to ~/ | |
| CHROME_PREFERENCE_LOCATION = "Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Preferences" | |
| CHROME_BOOKMARK_LOCATION = "Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks" | |
| print "\n\nBegin Chrome Operations\n" | |
| # load the bookmarks json file | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| if (File.exist?CHROME_BOOKMARK_LOCATION) | |
| bm_file = File.new(CHROME_BOOKMARK_LOCATION, "r") | |
| parsedChromeBookmarks = JSON.parse(bm_file.readlines.to_s) | |
| bm_file.close | |
| folder = {} | |
| folder["name"] = "XFINITY" | |
| folder["type"] = "folder" | |
| folder["children"] = [] | |
| bookmarksArray.each { |bookmark| | |
| bm = {} | |
| bm["name"] = bookmark["title"] | |
| bm["type"] = "url" | |
| bm["url"] = bookmark["url"] | |
| folder["children"].push(bm) | |
| } | |
| #search through the existing and see if there's already a "Comcast Xfinity" folder | |
| a = parsedChromeBookmarks["roots"]["bookmark_bar"]["children"] | |
| i = a.length-1 | |
| while i > -1 | |
| if a[i]["name"] == "Comcast Xfinity" | |
| a.delete_at(i) | |
| end | |
| i -= 1 | |
| end | |
| parsedChromeBookmarks["roots"]["bookmark_bar"]["children"].unshift(folder) | |
| bm_file = File.new(CHROME_BOOKMARK_LOCATION,"w") | |
| bm_file.write(JSON.pretty_generate(parsedChromeBookmarks)) | |
| bm_file.close | |
| else | |
| puts "cannot find chrome bookmarks file" | |
| end | |
| if (File.exist?CHROME_PREFERENCE_LOCATION) | |
| pref_file = File.new(CHROME_PREFERENCE_LOCATION,"r") | |
| parsedPrefs = JSON.parse(pref_file.readlines.to_s) | |
| pref_file.close | |
| #homepage | |
| parsedPrefs["homepage"] = homepage | |
| # #search provider (doesn't seem to work) | |
| # sn = { | |
| # "enabled"=>true, | |
| # "encodings"=>"", | |
| # "icon_url"=>"", | |
| # "instant_url"=>"", | |
| # "keyword"=>"comcast", | |
| # "name"=>"comcast.net", | |
| # "prepopulate_id"=>"0", | |
| # "search_url"=>searchProviderUrl+"{searchTerms}", | |
| # "suggest_url"=>"" | |
| # } | |
| # parsedPrefs["default_search_provider"] = sn | |
| pref_file = File.new(CHROME_PREFERENCE_LOCATION,"w") | |
| pref_file.write(JSON.pretty_generate(parsedPrefs)) | |
| pref_file.close | |
| else | |
| puts "cannot find chrome preferences files" | |
| end | |
| end | |
| ############## | |
| # Safari | |
| ############## | |
| SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION = "Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist" | |
| SAFARI_PREFERENCES_LOCATION = "Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist" | |
| SAFARI_CONFIGURATION_LOCATION = "Library/Safari/Configurations.plist.signed" | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| ## | |
| ## Bookmarks | |
| ## | |
| if (File.exist?(SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION)) | |
| if (system 'plutil -convert xml1 '+SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION) | |
| # bm_file = File.new(SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION,"r") | |
| parsedBm = Plist::parse_xml(SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION) | |
| barFolder = nil | |
| parsedBm["Children"].each { |folder| | |
| if (folder["Title"] == "BookmarksBar") | |
| barFolder = folder | |
| break | |
| end | |
| } | |
| if barFolder != nil | |
| if barFolder["Children"] == nil | |
| barFolder["Children"] = [] | |
| end | |
| puts "Items on BookmarksBar: "+barFolder["Children"].length.to_s | |
| # search for an existing "Comcast Xfinity" folder | |
| i = barFolder["Children"].length-1 | |
| while i > -1 | |
| if barFolder["Children"][i]["Title"] == "Comcast Xfinity" | |
| barFolder["Children"].delete_at(i) | |
| end | |
| i -= 1 | |
| end | |
| puts "Adding Folder..." | |
| comcastBookmarksArray = [] | |
| bookmarksArray.each { |bookmark| | |
| uri = { | |
| "title"=>bookmark["title"] | |
| } | |
| bm = { | |
| "URIDictionary" => uri, | |
| "URLString" => bookmark["url"], | |
| "WebBookmarkType" => "WebBookmarkTypeLeaf" | |
| } | |
| comcastBookmarksArray.push(bm) | |
| } | |
| comcastFolder = { | |
| "Title" => "Comcast Xfinity", | |
| "WebBookmarkType" => "WebBookmarkTypeList", | |
| "Children" => comcastBookmarksArray | |
| } | |
| barFolder["Children"].push(comcastFolder) | |
| bm_file = File.new(SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION, "w") | |
| bm_file.write(Plist::Emit.dump(parsedBm)) | |
| bm_file.close | |
| end | |
| if (system 'plutil -convert binary1 '+SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION) | |
| puts "successfully saved changes to Safari bookmarks" | |
| else | |
| puts "error saving changes to safari bookmarks!" | |
| end | |
| else | |
| puts "Failed to convert Bookmarks.plist with status: "+$?.to_s | |
| end | |
| else | |
| puts "could not find Safari bookmarks plist file at "+SAFARI_BOOKMARKS_LOCATION | |
| end | |
| ## | |
| ## Homepage | |
| ## | |
| if (File.exist?(SAFARI_PREFERENCES_LOCATION)) | |
| if (system 'plutil -convert xml1 '+SAFARI_PREFERENCES_LOCATION) | |
| parsedPrefs = Plist::parse_xml(SAFARI_PREFERENCES_LOCATION) | |
| puts "homepage currently set to - "+parsedPrefs["HomePage"].to_s | |
| puts "\treplacing with Comcast homepage" | |
| parsedPrefs["HomePage"] = homepage | |
| pref_file = File.new(SAFARI_PREFERENCES_LOCATION,"w") | |
| pref_file.write(Plist::Emit.dump(parsedPrefs)) | |
| pref_file.close | |
| if (system 'plutil -convert binary1 '+SAFARI_PREFERENCES_LOCATION) | |
| puts "successfully saved Safari preferences plist file" | |
| else | |
| puts "error saving changes to safari preferences" | |
| end | |
| else | |
| puts "could not convert Safari preferences to xml" | |
| end | |
| else | |
| puts "could not find Safari preferences file at "+SAFARI_PREFERENCES_LOCATION | |
| end | |
| ## | |
| ## Search Provider - doesn't work :-( | |
| ## | |
| # if (File.exist?(SAFARI_CONFIGURATION_LOCATION)) | |
| # parsedConfigs = Plist::parse_xml(SAFARI_CONFIGURATION_LOCATION) | |
| # alreadyHasComcast = false | |
| # puts "supports the following search providers:" | |
| # parsedConfigs["SearchProviders"]["SearchProviderList"].each { |provider| | |
| # puts provider["ShortName"] | |
| # if (provider["ScriptingName"] == "Comcast") | |
| # alreadyHasComcast = true | |
| # end | |
| # } | |
| # if (!alreadyHasComcast) | |
| # comcastNode = { | |
| # "HomePageURLs" => [searchProviderHomepage], | |
| # "HostSuffixes" => [".comcast.net"], | |
| # "PathPrefixes" => ["/search"], | |
| # "ScriptingName" => "Comcast", | |
| # "ShortName" => "Comcast", | |
| # "SearchUrlTemplate" => searchProviderUrl+"{searchTerms}" | |
| # } | |
| # parsedConfigs["SearchProviders"]["SearchProviderList"].push(comcastNode) | |
| # configFile = File.new(SAFARI_CONFIGURATION_LOCATION,"w") | |
| # configFile.write(Plist::Emit.dump(parsedConfigs)) | |
| # configFile.close | |
| # end | |
| # else | |
| # puts "could not find Safari configuration file at "+SAFARI_CONFIGURATION_LOCATION | |
| # end | |
| end | |
| ############## | |
| # Firefox | |
| ############## | |
| FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION = "Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/" | |
| FIREFOX_SEARCH_PLUGIN_LOCATION = "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/" | |
| ## add all our settings to this profile | |
| def add_settings_to_ff_profile(profile_name, bookmarksArray, homepage, abs_path_to_utils, supportSearch) | |
| puts File.expand_path($0) | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| puts File.expand_path($0) | |
| # this just tests to make sure we have all the bookmarks stuff in place for this profile | |
| # (i.e. making sure we've used firefox under this profile) | |
| db_location = FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION+"/"+profile_name+"/places.sqlite" | |
| sqlite3_location = abs_path_to_utils+"/sqlite3" | |
| roots = `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'SELECT * FROM moz_bookmarks_roots'` | |
| if ($?.to_i == 0) | |
| puts roots | |
| toolbar_folder_id = `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'SELECT folder_id FROM "moz_bookmarks_roots" WHERE root_name="toolbar"'` | |
| puts "toolbar folder id = "+toolbar_folder_id | |
| # TODO: check for the Comcast Xfinity folder | |
| comcast_folder_id = `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'SELECT id FROM "moz_bookmarks" WHERE title="Comcast Xfinity"'` | |
| if (comcast_folder_id != nil && comcast_folder_id!="") | |
| puts "Xfinity bookmark folder exists" | |
| else | |
| # make the bookmark folder | |
| puts `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'INSERT INTO moz_bookmarks (type, parent, title) VALUES(2,#{toolbar_folder_id},"Comcast Xfinity")'` | |
| comcast_folder_id = `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'SELECT id FROM "moz_bookmarks" WHERE title="Comcast Xfinity"'` | |
| puts "created Xfinity folder, id="+comcast_folder_id | |
| # insert each bookmark into the moz_places table, get its id, add it as a bookmark | |
| bookmarksArray.each { |bookmark| | |
| puts "\n___________\nbookmark "+bookmark["title"] | |
| puts `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'INSERT INTO moz_places (url, title, hidden, typed) VALUES("#{bookmark["url"]}","#{bookmark["title"]}",0,0)'` | |
| place_id = `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'SELECT id FROM moz_places WHERE url="#{bookmark["url"]}"'` | |
| puts "id in places db="+place_id | |
| puts `'#{sqlite3_location}' '#{db_location}' 'INSERT INTO moz_bookmarks (type, fk, parent, position, title) VALUES(1,#{place_id},#{comcast_folder_id},0,"#{bookmark["title"]}")'` | |
| } | |
| end | |
| else | |
| puts "Error opening places database!" | |
| # return here because we won't be able to install the extension either | |
| return nil | |
| end | |
| # now add a homepage preference in user.js | |
| #preflocation = FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION+"/"+profile_name+"/user.js" | |
| #prefs = File.new(preflocation, "a") | |
| #prefs.write("\nuser_pref(\"browser.startup.homepage\", \"#{homepage}\");") | |
| #if supportSearch | |
| # prefs.write("\nuser_pref(\"browser.search.selectedEngine\", \"Xfinity\");\nuser_pref(\"browser.search.suggest.enabled\", false);") | |
| #end | |
| #prefs.close | |
| # if requested, delete the search database (and its backup file), which will force FF to recreate when it starts up | |
| #if supportSearch | |
| # puts "removing search database so that FF will have to rebuild" | |
| # puts "rm -rf #{FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION}/#{profile_name}/search.sqlite" | |
| #`rm -rf '#{FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION}/#{profile_name}/search.sqlite'` | |
| #`rm -rf '#{FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION}/#{profile_name}/search.json'` | |
| #end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| puts "--------\nBegin Firefox Operations" | |
| couldInstallSearch = false | |
| # Copy the search plugin xml file into the search plugins folder if we can find it | |
| if (File.exists?(FIREFOX_SEARCH_PLUGIN_LOCATION)) | |
| `cp '#{abs_path_to_utils}/firefox_search_plugin.xml' '#{FIREFOX_SEARCH_PLUGIN_LOCATION}/comcast.xml'` | |
| couldInstallSearch = true | |
| else | |
| couldInstallSearch = false | |
| puts 'cannot find firefox application folder. perhaps the user has installed it in a non-standard location. unable to install search plugins' | |
| end | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| ff_profile_list = `ls '#{FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION}'`.split("\n") | |
| ff_profile_list.each { |profile_folder| | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| ## This check is necessary because Firefox seems to throw random non-folders in the | |
| ## profile directory (when profiles have spaces in the names) | |
| puts "couldInstallSearch="+couldInstallSearch.to_s | |
| if (File.directory?(FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION+profile_folder)) | |
| puts "\n--------\nprofile folder: "+profile_folder+"\n--------" | |
| add_settings_to_ff_profile(profile_folder, bookmarksArray,homepage,abs_path_to_utils,couldInstallSearch) | |
| else | |
| puts 'seems this profile is not a directory '+profile_folder | |
| end | |
| end | |
| } | |
| end | |
| print "\n----------------------------\n" | |
| print "script add_bookmarks completed successfully\n\n\n" | |
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # A script to add some bookmarks to any supported browsers | |
| echo "shell script running">> ~/.cim_install_log | |
| echo $1>> ~/.cim_install_log | |
| echo $2>> ~/.cim_install_log | |
| echo "run ruby script from:">> ~/.cim_install_log | |
| echo $2/ruby/add_bookmarks.rb>> ~/.cim_install_log | |
| cd $2/ruby | |
| ruby $2/ruby/add_bookmarks.rb>> ~/.cim_install_log 2>&1 | |
| exit 0 |
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| require "rexml/document" | |
| require "fileutils" | |
| FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION = "Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/" | |
| TEMP_DIRECTORY = "comcast_temp_000123" | |
| FIREFOX_TOOLBAR_FILENAME = "XfinitydotcomToolbarMAC.xpi" | |
| abs_path_xpi_directory = File.dirname($0) | |
| # user may pass a commandline argument to override the default location | |
| # of the xpi | |
| if (ARGV[0] != nil) | |
| abs_path_xpi_directory = ARGV[0] | |
| end | |
| # add all our settings to this profile | |
| def add_settings_to_ff_profile(profile_name, abs_path_xpi_directory) | |
| clsid = nil | |
| Dir.chdir(abs_path_xpi_directory) do | |
| if (File.exist?TEMP_DIRECTORY) | |
| `rm -rf '#{TEMP_DIRECTORY}'` | |
| end | |
| Dir.mkdir(TEMP_DIRECTORY) | |
| `unzip '#{FIREFOX_TOOLBAR_FILENAME}' -d '#{TEMP_DIRECTORY}'` | |
| manifest = File.new(TEMP_DIRECTORY+"/manifest.xml") | |
| doc = REXML::Document.new manifest | |
| clsid = doc.get_elements("toolbar-manifest/dtx")[0].attributes["clsid"].to_s() | |
| manifest.close | |
| end | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| dirlocation = FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION+profile_name+"/extensions/"+clsid | |
| if (!File.exist?(dirlocation) || Dir.entries(dirlocation).length < 3) | |
| if (File.exists?(dirlocation)) | |
| puts "exists, delete it" | |
| Dir.delete(dirlocation) | |
| end | |
| FileUtils.mkdir_p(dirlocation) | |
| puts "copy file: "+abs_path_xpi_directory+"/"+TEMP_DIRECTORY+"/." | |
| FileUtils.cp_r(abs_path_xpi_directory+"/"+TEMP_DIRECTORY+"/.", dirlocation) | |
| puts "toolbar installed" | |
| else | |
| puts "it seems the firefox toolbar is already installed" | |
| end | |
| end | |
| Dir.chdir(File.dirname($0)) do | |
| `rm -rf '#{TEMP_DIRECTORY}'` | |
| end | |
| end | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| puts "running script from "+File.expand_path($0) | |
| ff_profile_list = `ls '#{FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION}'`.split("\n") | |
| ff_profile_list.each { |profile_folder| | |
| Dir.chdir() do | |
| ## This check is necessary because Firefox seems to throw random non-folders in the | |
| ## profile directory (when profiles have spaces in the names) | |
| if (File.directory?(FIREFOX_PROFILES_LOCATION+profile_folder)) | |
| puts "\n--------\nprofile folder: "+profile_folder+"\n--------" | |
| add_settings_to_ff_profile(profile_folder, abs_path_xpi_directory) | |
| else | |
| puts 'seems this profile is not a directory '+profile_folder | |
| end | |
| end | |
| } | |
| end |
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| echo "begin script install_ff_plugin">> ~/.cim_install_log | |
| cd "/tmp/comcast_002/Firefox Plugin/">> ~/.cim_install_log | |
| ruby install_ff_plugin.rb "/tmp/comcast_002/Firefox Plugin">> ~/.cim_install_log 2>&1 |
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