1548095 - Provide a way to block the loading of addons without blocking everything else

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: about:debugging, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

In enterprise policy, folks want to block the installation of addons.

If they do that, we need to prevent the loading of addons via about:debugging.

Right now all we can do is block about:debugging completely.

It would be nice if there was someway to simply remove the Load Temporary Addon button if addon blocking is enabled.

Comment 1

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

:mkaply, which pref is blocking for blocking installation of addons that about:debugging should use to hide the button?

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

If xpinstall.enabled is locked to false.

There's also a new policy coming, but if the infrastructure is there, I can just hook into it.

Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

It would be nice if there was someway to simply remove the Load Temporary Addon button if addon blocking is enabled.

If we fix this in 68, this needs to be fixed in both the old about:debugging (which can still be enabled with a pref) and the new one.

For the new about:debugging I would just hide the whole temporary extension section.
For the old one we should just hide the button.

It makes sense to adapt the aboutdebugging UI here, but the root cause should also be fixed IMO. The AddonManager.installTemporaryAddon should not allow extensions to be installed when this pref is false.

Comment 4

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Attachment: Bug 1548095 - Hide temporary addon category in about:debugging when xpinstall.enabled is false

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/af96bd1090b5
Hide temporary addon category in about:debugging when xpinstall.enabled is false r=daisuke

Comment 6

[Oana Pop-Rus]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/af96bd1090b5