1289503 - One should be notified on extension update, especially when a restart is required

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[u552789]

It would be nice if one would be notified by Firefox if an extension is updated which requires the user to restart the browser. As otherwise there could be a quite important update waiting to be completed by a restart, and the user would never know unless they checked in their extension updates log.

At the very bare minimum there should be some notification of this, but it would also be nice if the user could specify the following options for all extensions, as well as specific ones:

- Notify on all updates
- Notify only on update requiring restart
- Never notify

So that they could have an overall setting, and then could specify certain ones to have custom settings different from the overall setting.

I originally filed this request here but thought I should also do so upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1606628

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

I don't think we should do this for a couple of reasons. WebExtensions don't require restarts and we are encouraging moving all add-ons to use WebExtensions. Also an API has recently been added that allows an add-on to be notified of a required restart in bug 1231172 and deal with it appropriately.

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

Marking won't fix on my last comments.