299166 - make the pref to disable installation of extensions not compatible with new EM (install.js only) as default one

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

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

This bug is meant to be discussion about changing the default behaviour of
installing old / non compatible with new EM (install.js only) extensions.
New EM (install.rdf) was introduced in Firefox 0.9 and it's probably time to
'protect' the users and force authors to make their extensions new EM compatible.
Please add / fill bugs that should be fixed before changing this behaviour.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299041 ***

Comment 2

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

(In reply to comment #1)
When bug 299041 would be fixed I doubt that the requested pref would be defaulted to true but I might reopen the bug later if needed...

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

sorry, not a dupe -- my mistake.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Confirming but I imagine that the decision will just be taken in bug 299041

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Since there is not going to be any pref this is invalid.