295043 - Import/export the list of installed extensions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Geert Poels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

To allow the easier backup/distribution of your currently installed extensions,
it would be useful if the extension manager window would feature and
export/import function.
The export function could write a list of the extensions as an xml-file feature
its name and the url of the .xpi.
Users who import this list could choose which one to install.
Security-wise, the same mechanism of signed/unsigned locations is used, so it's
not considered a backdoor for viruses.
It would allow for the even easier promotion of the extensions one likes to
other users.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

There is an extension that does this - Infolister, and you can just backup your
profile directory to backup the extensions.

-> INVA ?

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

see bug 222183. While writing URLs of the XPIs isn't in current version of
InfoLister, there's an unofficial version somewhere that can do this.

Comment 3

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Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is good extension-fodder.

Comment 5

[Jens Bannmann]

*** Bug 222183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Dominique De Vito]

See a need very close to this enhancement: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/03/19/add-on-jockey/