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Full Installer
The full installer is actually responsible for installing the browser; it's what the stub launches in order to do the "real" installing work, but it's also available separately. It uses a traditional "wizard" interface design, as is (somewhat) natively supported by NSIS. It can also be {doc}configured <FullConfig> to launch in a silent mode, suitable for scripting or managed deployments.
The full installer's main script is {searchfox}installer.nsi <browser/installer/windows/nsis/installer.nsi>, but most of the heavy lifting is done by the shared functions in {searchfox}common.nsh <toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/common.nsh>.
If it was not launched by the {doc}StubInstaller, an {ref}Install Ping is sent when the installer exits.
The installer writes installation_telemetry.json to the install location, this is read by Firefox in order to send a telemetry event, see the event definition in {searchfox}Events.yaml <toolkit/components/telemetry/Events.yaml> (category installation, event name first_seen) for a description of the properties. There is also an install_timestamp property, which is saved in the profile to determine whether there has been a new installation; this is not sent as part of the ping.
The full installer can also access NSIS plugins written in C++, see {doc}building NSIS plugins <NSISPlugins> for more information.
FullConfig