Closed Bug 1505105 Opened 6 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Document how to test Firefox extension permission warnings on upgrade

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Add-ons, enhancement, P2)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: wbamberg, Assigned: ismith)

Details

When an extensions developer releases an upgrade, if the new version requests different permissions, then Firefox may ask the user to accept the new permissions before upgrading.

Before releasing an upgrade, extension developers would like to understand whether upgrading users will see such a dialog and what it will ask.

So they would like a way to test an upgrade so they can see what their users will see. We should document how to do this.

Alexei has outlined the procedure here: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-addons/2018-November/003989.html. Most of this procedure is generic "how to self-host an extension", so if we already have good docs on that we don't need to duplicate it, but we should point to the existing docs, properly contextualized, as a way for people to test upgrades. Obvious places to include these pointers are 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/onboarding_upboarding_offboarding_best_practices#Upboarding and probably https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/permissions.
Priority: -- → P2
Assignee: nobody → ismith

Closing; this is now tracked at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/1004

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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