Firebrew

Firefox add-ons manager for CUI.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'firebrew'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install firebrew

NOTE: This program execution requires the OpenSSL.

Usage

The structure of the command line is shown below:

$ firebrew [--help] [--version]
           [--base-dir=<path>] [--profile=<name>] [--firefox=<path>]
           <command> [<args>]

commands

install

Install the extension which is designated by the extension-name argument:

$ firebrew install <extension-name>

uninstall

Uninstall the extension which is designated by the extension-name argument:

$ firebrew uninstall <extension-name>

info

Show detail information of the extension which is designated by the extension-name argument:

$ firebrew info <extension-name>

search

Enumerate the remote extensions whose name is matched the term argument:

$ firebrew search <term>

list

Enumerate the installed extensions:

$ firebrew list

profile

Show the profile information:

$ firebrew profile [--attribute=<attr-name>]

options

--attribute

The name of the attribute which want to display:

-a <attr-name>, --attribute=<attr-name>

global options

--base-dir

The Firefox profiles.ini directory:

-d <path>, --base-dir=<path>

The default value is listed below:

platform	value
Mac OS X	`~/Library/Application Support/Firefox`
Linux	`~/.mozilla/firefox`
Windows	`%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox`

It's able to overridden by the FIREBREW_FIREFOX_PROFILE_BASE_DIR environment variable.

--profile-name

The Firefox profile name:

-p <name>, --profile=<name>

The default value is default, and it's able to overridden by the FIREBREW_FIREFOX_PROFILE environment variable.

--firefox

The Firefox command path:

-f <path>, --firefox=<path>