Closed Bug 1211931 Opened 9 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Add-on install support (esp. for devices)

Categories

(DevTools :: about:debugging, defect, P2)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
about:debugging
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1737581

People

(Reporter: jryans, Unassigned, Mentored)

References

Details

It sounds like it's becoming more important to have some DevTools way to install add-ons, esp. for devices like Fennec. See discussion surrounding bug 1201534 comment 7. about:debugging might be a place to expose this.
Good idea! Thanks for filing this bug.
Component: Developer Tools → Developer Tools: about:debugging
First, we would need to use actors to list and debug actors.
Depends on: 1243460
It should be quite easy. We would need to add an "install" method on the addon actor living here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/devtools/server/actors/addon.js And introduce a new install button, or may be just plug the existing "Load temporary add-on" to this new method. One challenge will be to upload the addon via the protocol. We can look at what has been done for Webapps to do the same: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/devtools/server/actors/webapps.js#50
Mentor: poirot.alex
Priority: -- → P2
Product: Firefox → DevTools

Let's consolidate under Bug 1737581. We will reuse load temporary addon for the UI part.
Link to the old webapps actor: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/76a10b1ae6abce425b0bca991be85662e5219a77/devtools/server/actors/webapps.js

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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