236981 - Want non-interactive extension installation

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Toralf Lund]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

I'd really like to have some way to install extensions/.xpi files without a GUI
or any questions asked.

I want to be able to *automatically* install extensions common to all users in
the browsers directory. I may want to combine the functionality with
distribution via alternative package formats, such as rpm.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[David A. Cobb]

Would be nice-to-have!  If we could fix this up, perhaps a smart installer could
park the current set of chromes somewhere while installing an upgrade - and then
automagically re-install them.

Comment 2

[David A. Cobb]

Is this not now closable -- the new Extension Manager does a lovely job of
picking up as many current extensions as possible.

Comment 3

[Toralf Lund]

Can that [the extension manager] install *without user interaction* and on the
system directory instead of the user profile, or maybe even a temporary mirror
of the former. If not, it's of no use in this conjunction...

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

you can do this with -install-global-extension command line option

but see also bug 265859