253744 - Polish Plugin Experience - Installer work

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Installer, defect, P2)

Description

[chris hofmann]

break off for installer related work in 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244125

INSTALLER:
2) get the firefox stub installer code landed (from blake)
3) make the stub installer check which plugins are installed (it's a native
windows app - can check reg keys etc) 
4) provide an additional page to the wizard for both "Easy" and "Custom"
installs that lists plugins that were not found on disk (*) to download and
install. 
5) collect xpis that silently install plugins (i.e. without UI) for use in the
installer

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

Why is 244125 restricted access?

Comment 2

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

Let's revise the requirements here to reflect what we're likely to get on
time... The new requirements are:

- detect existing plugins on the system that *might* work with us...
  (I am still waiting to see a matrix identifying these posted somewhere)
- copy the plugins/xpt files/set up registry keys etc to make them work.

Leave the download portion out of the installer for now since it has l10n impact
and additional complexity that I'm not convinced we can get working flawlessly
in time.

Because of the shifting requirements, - for PR, + for 1.0

Comment 3

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

Not a "blocker"

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

As it stands currently, we have the plugin finder service to install plugins, as I understand it the plugins we are interested in installing require the user to first agree to a EULA, and the times I have talked with people about getting permission to redistribute plugins it seemed like it isn't going to happen.

Comment #2 was implemented as needed and with the new plugin architecture is no longer required so the code was removed.

Resolving -> wontfix since there are at the very least dependencies that would first need to be completed before implementing in the installer. If we do get permission to install plugins via the installer I will be more than happy to add this functionality to the installer.