Closed Bug 272644 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Per-user equivalent of -install-global-extension

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Add-ons Manager
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: joe, Assigned: bugs)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

When building software which includes firefox extensions, it would be very
helpful to have a per-user equivalent of -install-global-extension.  Ie,
-install-local-extension which would install into your
.mozilla/firefox/[profile]/extensions directory.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Will also need -remove-local-extension (see bug #272653)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Download Manager → Extension/Theme Manager
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
QA Contact: aebrahim-bmo → bugs
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: [RFE] Per-user equivalent of -install-global-extension → Per-user equivalent of -install-global-extension
Version: unspecified → Trunk
This is being done in bug 286034
Depends on: eminstall
Now that the patch in bug 286034 landed, you can either drop the XPI in
extensions/, which makes Firefox ask user if s/he wants to install the
extension, or just unzip the XPI to extensions/{the-guid-of-extension} and have
it registered automatically without a notice. Test with latest-trunk builds, if
you like (although it currently has quite a few other problems).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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