170006 - New Extension Manager

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This package manager will allow selective enabling and disabling plugins and
mozilla add-ons.  The manager will also allow for uninstall of specific plug-in
and add-on packages.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

shooting for next release. 

Comment 2

[andreww]

perhaps as a future issue - it would be nice to know in the manager view what
the version is of the plugin or add-on.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

hyatt is done with this for 0.2.  Enabling/disabling works, uninstallation not yet.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating summary.

Comment 5

[Pierre Chanial]

fwiw, a lot of package uninstalling work has been done in bug 161508 and in bug
114092. The two implementations are stalled, though.

Comment 6

[Teo]

Yes please

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

maybe 0.7

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 213195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[noririty]

I found exUnregisterer (XUL Package Unregisterer) from piro's site.
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/lib/exUnregisterer.js

Comment 10

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Retargeting. This is part of work that is scheduled for 0.10, so I'm targeting
it there. 

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 231386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238684

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=64341

Will the new Extension Manager address the concerns that have begun to be raised
here?

Comment 13

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

No, the extension manager doesn't come into play with bug 238684. But we can
still try to get something done about it.

Comment 14

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

I have a question, won't rewriting the new extension manager from C++ to js make
it slower. Wouldn't C++ be much faster?

Comment 15

[Zook Valem]

>>This package manager will allow selective enabling and disabling plugins 
>>and mozilla add-ons.  The manager will also allow for uninstall of specific 
>>plug-in and add-on packages.
"Mozilla Add-Ons", do you mean this extension manager will be included in
Mozilla down the road?  Just want some clarification here, that's all.

Comment 16

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 242811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Steffen Wilberg]

-> Extension Mgr.

Comment 18

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

*** Bug 242811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Steffen Wilberg]

*** Bug 224777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Neil Parks]

Since FF now has an extension mgr, perhaps this bug should be marked "FIXED"?

Comment 21

[Ed Sternbach]

Unable to reinstall .9 as extension manager hangs forever when firefox attempts 
to open

Comment 22

[Andrey A. Belikov]

> Unable to reinstall .9 as extension manager hangs forever when firefox attempts 
> to open

Source from FireFox 0.9.1 
/mozilla/rdf/chrome/src/nsChromeRegistry.cpp
......
NS_IMETHODIMP nsChromeRegistry::UninstallPackage(const PRUnichar* aPackageName, 
PRBool aUseProfile)
......

They didn't change this file :)

Comment 23

[Benjamin Smedberg]

> Source from FireFox 0.9.1 
> /mozilla/rdf/chrome/src/nsChromeRegistry.cpp
> ......
> NS_IMETHODIMP nsChromeRegistry::UninstallPackage(const PRUnichar* aPackageName, 
> PRBool aUseProfile)
> ......
> 
> They didn't change this file :)

That file is not part of the firefox build, it is only built for seamonkey. And
it has nothing to do with the extension manager hanging, which is another bug
that was already fixed (hopefully).

I'm gonna give Ben credit and mark this FIXED ;)