1489500 - Unpacked WebExtensions can't be updated to packed on Firefox 62

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

If a user has an unpacked WebExtension, with Firefox 62, that add-ons is marked as unverified and legacy.

Because of that, we can't read the manifest.json to get an update URL in order to update them to a new version that is packed.

This is a major problem for distributions where a WebExtension could be unpacked in the user profile directory and hasn't been updated.

We should either:

1. Pack the extension ourselves (we can do that. We can create Zips).

or

2. At least read the manifest.json so the add-on can be updated.

Comment 1

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

Would we spin a dot release for 62 for this?

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

So it looks like the data is in the addons database, so updates will still happen. So this is probably a won't fix.