Closed Bug 252303 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Make extensions droppable in extensions/

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Add-ons Manager
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286034

People

(Reporter: doronr, Assigned: bugs)

References

Details

I should be able to drop an .xpi inside of extensions/ and have it installed
when ff starts the next time.

This would be usefull for big deployments of ff.  Shellblock.xpi could be
deployed like this to a whole company, as many use their own installation
mechanisms.
Got cut off:

Currently, you can drop xpcom components into compontents/ and touch an .autoreg
file to get the components registered on next startup.
Would this be a global installation or just per-profile?  In a controlled
environment, the user probably won't have write access to the install directory,
or at least we can't assume they'll have it.  We could always try global and
fall back to profile-only if necessary.
since firefox is aiming at single profileness, it should probably be per profile.
well at least this method can help in other ways
you talk about one user

then here this
dial-up users at least can breath fresh air
they could download their extensions and back them on any medium the prefer
and if they update or format their hard drives they don't have to go online
to get the extensions but instead they can install it
dial-up people can download the xpi, then open it in Mozilla.  This is more
usefull for larger deployments.
This should be better documented, and locally so, too. In Mozilla (old style), I
can usually choose whether to install an extension per-user (as the running
user), or globally if I'm running as root. I didn't see this in Firefox, and it
installed the extensions locally in root's profile. Instead, it should either
ask, or the extensions mechanism should be done in a way that the extensions/
portion of the profile could be easily copied around to other profiles, or the
global profile, at least after some easy-to-do and documented tweaking of some
text strings (eg. paths).

I also noted that Firefox records absolute paths in some of the extensions
uninstall area at least which would break badly if the profile would be moved
around itself (eg. due to migration to a different file system layout).
*** Bug 251946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Severity: normal → enhancement
*** Bug 271672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
will bug 286034 give you this?
Not exactly the same, but it is up to ben to decide.
What we did is done...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286034 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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