232849 - Make View Source a Mozilla.org maintained Extension (Bundle)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Bug 222796 is about "Standard extensions"

By default, we can have View Source open a text/plain helper application (bug
172817), then we can outsource View Source to an extension available for people
that don't have a good text/plain helper application to choose from. This will
make Firebird more lightweight for the user who doesn't need View Source and is
perfectly happy with the source code being loaded in notepad or what have you.

When building "Browser", the .xpi for the extensions will be generated, but will
be provided in a seperate directory on FTP and linked to from the page listing
all the extensions that Mozilla.org maintains (bug 232845).

Comment 1

[Pham]

I use Notepad to edit but Firebird to View Source and this would be very
inconvenient

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

while I don't agree, necessarily, at all, I don't see this as fundamentally 
flawed enough to not get a module peer decision on it

My own thoughts on this is that we're not trying to create a "lite" browser, 
and the enhancements in view source are substantial enough, and lightweight 
enough, to justify inclusion.  There's so much debate on how to find/spawn 
a "default" editor on non-win32 platforms that this isn't practical, but I'd 
rather pch weigh in here.

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I'd like to mention that making it a Mozilla.org maintained extension would not
mean View Source would be removed from Firebird. Mozilla.org would still
maintain it, and it would not be made into a 3rd party extension. It'd just mean
people would have the choice not to install it if they didn't want it if using
an installer that downloaded the XPI packages one-by-one from the web.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this is not going to happen, view source is important enough to enough users to
not waste time making this an installer option.