Where to locate .exe/.msi

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LiquidAurum
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Where to locate .exe/.msi

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I'm trying to install adblock plus with GPO, by installing the .msi/exe files. But I"ve only been able to find those for IE, and still searching for chrome and firefox versions.
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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There's no such thing. Chrome extensions are CRX files, while Firefox extensions are XPI files.

Chrome
http://code.google.com/chrome/extension ... sions.html

Firefox
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add ... extensions
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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Gingerbread Man wrote:There's no such thing. Chrome extensions are CRX files, while Firefox extensions are XPI files.

Chrome
http://code.google.com/chrome/extension ... sions.html

Firefox
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add ... extensions
Do you know if possibly there is a way to use those 2 links for group policy?
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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Thanks for this, do you happen to know the adblock plus extension ID and update url? I need those to setup .reg file for GPO.

Thanks
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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the ID should be included in the store url for the extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... fddb?hl=en
so ==>

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cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb
for the update url: You find this info in the manifest.json of the extension

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"key": "MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCxGWIIBRUVzQIXITqE6+js1FA24fsZC58G0fxcO1Duwfps+9gip5tedTziErKEpeAQVkgasdT4kk+b6Lw27yp3oysAj6zD9j+j4W+EMArTXqMIc6SMYD7Z8bPcwPb3tC1MUxMSpO6oOVpFE23UhKe91SYnrK92nHI2cmsor5elXQIDAQAB",
   "manifest_version": 2,
   "minimum_chrome_version": "28.0",
   "name": "__MSG_name__",
   "options_page": "options.html",
   "permissions": [ "tabs", "http://*/*", "https://*/*", "contextMenus", "webRequest", "webRequestBlocking", "webNavigation", "unlimitedStorage", "notifications" ],
   "update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",
   "version": "1.8.5",
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ExtensionInstallForcelist]
1=cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb;http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&

This is what I put in notepad++ and saved as .reg file. But it keeps saying "you can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor"
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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see
http://www.thefreewindows.com/14039/err ... ary-files/

try using windows's notepad to be sure you don't include strange characters in the text
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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Ok so that executed successfully, but it didn't actually work, it was a success as far as installing in .reg, but nothing came out of it, do I have to reinstall chrome? Please don't give me a link, I'd prefer an explanation rather then searching through he link if possible. thanks
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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Did you create the entry like here ? (I don't see the double quote and I see also something like ?response=redirect& )
http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/ ... lForcelist

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Software\Policies\Chromium\ExtensionInstallForcelist\1 = "cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ExtensionInstallForcelist]
1=cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb;http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&
this is exactly what it looks like, the 1=cfh is on a new line as seen above
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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from that link it should be:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ExtensionInstallForcelist]
1="cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb;http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"
see also
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2416 ... t-not-work
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Re: Where to locate .exe/.msi

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I tried to copy/paste exactly what you said and I see in my registry that the entry is there but it says no value set. I don't know if that is normal or not.
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