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)
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Add-ons
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.
Updated•5 years ago
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Priority: -- → P2
Updated•5 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → ismith
Comment 1•5 years ago
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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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