189336 - Need method for transferring add-ons from oner version of Mozilla to next

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125610

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jim Strickland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030113

Mozilla is great. One of the great features is the ability to easily accept
third-party add-ons, such as MozTweak and Preference Toolbar, thus enabling one
to customize Mozilla to fit individual needs. One problem is the fact that
whenever a new version of Mozilla is released these add-ons have to be
reinstalled. There needs to be a way to easily transfer these add-ons whenever a
new version of Mozilla is loaded, so they don't have to be reinstalled each
time. I would personally be more willing to test new builds of Mozilla on a
regular basis if I new I could easily transfer these customizations each time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jon Henry]

Hi Jim. You might be aware of this now, but most extensions allow you to install
them to your profile rather than the Mozilla folder, so that they will exist
after upgrading to a new version. If a particular extension you like doesn't
have that feature, you'll have to contact the author and ask him/her to add
support for it. See bug 125610 and bug 162960 for details if you're interested.
Thanks.

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