245080 - Check extension/theme compatibility

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

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

It would be useful to have a compatibility check before installing an
extension/theme: the extension/theme must have a sort of header with some
information, at least "target" and "version", which permit to identify the
program target (Firefox, Thunderbird or Mozilla) and the right version on which
it can be installed.

In this way we can avoid to:
1. install Thunderbird extensions/themes on Firefox and messing up the browser:
"This extension is not designed for this browser, you have to download it."
2. install extension/themes on older versions of the browser: "This
extension/theme is designed for an updated version of the browser, please
upgrade to the last version."
3. install extension/themes not updated for the version in use of the browser:
"This extension/theme is designed for a previous version of the browser; please
download an updated version."

It could be also interesting, combining with the control for "updated version of
extensions/theme", advise the user if exists an updated version of the extension
he's installing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is already coming in 0.9.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is already coming in 0.9.

Now I'm trying latest trunk 20040529 and I can easily install a Thunderbird
extension or a Firefox extension still not updated for nightly versions. Will it
be implemented before 0.9?