script to update Firefox using msi installer

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RUN AS LOCALSYSTEM USER

NOTE:

please give msi installer direct download links of the updated version of Firefox in the variables "url_64bit_msi" and "url_32bit_msi" accordingly.

you can find the latest version of direct download links of msi installer for Firefox from the following website - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

the script will check system architecture on the endpoint machine and use the direct download link from url_64bit_msi if it is a 64bit windows or it will use direct download link from url_32bit_msi if it is a 32bit windows.

this script has been scanned with virustotal.com and xcitium verdict cloud.

PYTHON SCRIPT FILE SHA1 VALUE - ddfaae48f725e7ea6ca3d9b7101011d1ee8997fe

JSON FILE SHA1 VALUE - 5020426cf7b45b5335f38bfb0f714bf8c2afa6b3

Procedure's Instructions

# give here the 64bit msi direct download link of the updated version of Firefox
url_64bit_msi=r"https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/118.0.2/win64/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%20118.0.2.msi"

# give here the 32bit msi direct download link of the updated version of Firefox
url_32bit_msi =r"https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/118.0.2/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%20118.0.2.msi"

import os
from subprocess import PIPE, Popen
import ctypes
import ssl
import urllib2
import time

class disable_file_system_redirection:
    _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection
    _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection
    def __enter__(self):
        self.old_value = ctypes.c_long()
        self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value))
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        if self.success:
            self._revert(self.old_value)
    
    
Down_path=os.environ['TEMP']
fileName = "Firefox.msi"
DownTo = os.path.join(Down_path, fileName)

def ecmd(command):   
    from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
    import ctypes
    
    with disable_file_system_redirection():
        obj = Popen(command, shell = True, stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE)
    out, err = obj.communicate()
    ret=obj.returncode
    if ret==0:
        if out:
            return out.strip()
        else:
            return ret
    else:
        if err:
            return err.strip()
        else:
            return ret

def downloadFile(DownTo, fromURL):
    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36'}
    context = ssl._create_unverified_context()
    request = urllib2.Request(fromURL, headers=headers)
    req = urllib2.urlopen(request,context=context)
    try:
        with open(DownTo, 'wb') as f:
            while True:
                chunk = req.read(100*1000*1000)
                if chunk:
                    f.write(chunk)
                else:
                    break
        if os.path.isfile(DownTo):
            return '{} - {}KB'.format(DownTo, os.path.getsize(DownTo)/1024)
		
    except:
        return 'Please Check URL or Download Path!'

with disable_file_system_redirection():
    arch=os.popen("wmic os get OSArchitecture").read()

if '64' in arch:
    url = url_64bit_msi
else:
    url = url_32bit_msi

def install():
    with disable_file_system_redirection():
        print(downloadFile(DownTo, url))
        obj = Popen('msiexec /i %s /quiet'%(DownTo), shell = True, stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE)
        out, err = obj.communicate()
        ret=obj.returncode
        if ret==0:
            print("the Firefox Browser has been successfully updated")
            if out:
                print(out)
        else:
            if err:
                print("update failed. an error has occurred: \n%s"%(err))
            else:
                print("something went wrong while updating the application")
                print("return code: %s"%(ret))
        os.remove(DownTo)

install()

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