184693 - extensions should install to directory other than Phoenix install dir

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 125610

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[FERNANDO FERNALD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

I think the Extensions should be setup in a folder outside the PHOENIX folder.
Each time a nightly build is install, everything about the extensions disappear.
There should be a place where a folder name could be setup, so Phoenix will know
which extensions are available in the hard disk. Takes a considerable amount of
time if somebody has 5 or more extensions, and after installing each one,
Phoenix must be shut-down and call it again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
an external folder with the installed extensions. Example:
phoenix would be in :     C:\APPS\PHOENIX
the extensions would be:  C:\APPS\PHOENIX-EXTENSIONS

Comment 1

[David P James]

Possibly related to bug 170006 or bug 172891?

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Isn't this up to the extension author? XPI should be able to install anywhere it
wants. 

Comment 3

[alanjstr]

I'm more in favor of them going into the profile directory, like skins are able
to.  

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125610 ***

Comment 5

[noririty]

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