272400 - add button to force re-install of extensions

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Lapo Luchini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The "update" button, in the extension manager, is very handy (though to update
it all every one must be selected, using CTRL key, and it doesn't even show us
as selected if more than one selected) but e.g. in case of need of deleting
chrome subdir, a button to force re-install (i.e. "update even if version is the
same") would be very very handy.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Users shouldn't need to delete "chrome" dir (it will only help if the chrome
registry is damaged, which shouldn't happen).

Comment 2

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

But it does happen often.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

chrome.rdf/overlayinfo are no longer used - see bug 278534. So unless something
modifies files in extensions/ you won't gain anything by deleting extensions/
folder and reinstalling.

I still don't think it's a good addition to Firefox core, but there's a modified
version of InfoLister which allows you to gather links to XPIs for currently
installed extensions. Search the "Mass Installer" thread on MozillaZine forums.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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