411800 - Download Statusbar addon not available/working for Firefox 3

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[chris hofmann]

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/26/

Comment 1

[Devon Jensen]

A version of Download Statusbar is available and working from the extension's homepage:  http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
This information is listed in the Developer Comments for on the AMO page

Extensive changes to firefox's download system have required extensive changes to the download statusbar extension and it's just not feasible to make the new version backwards compatible to firefox 2.

It would be very much preferable if AMO could serve one version to ff2 users and another version to ff3 users.  As is stands, I hope to "flip the switch" just before firefox 3 is released

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Since a beta is available for Firefox 3, I am marking this INVALID.

Devon - Is there a way for you to use the "app flags" in the chrome manifest to basically pull in the old code for FF2 and the new code for FF3?

Comment 3

[Devon Jensen]

One of the problems with that approach is that the versions for ff2 and ff3 have some different features and capabilities, but would then have the same version number.  This can only add to user confusion.

Also, that is the kind of bloated, monster of an extension I was trying to avoid (i.e. 2 versions of 3 language files in 25 different languages) - but I'll look into using the app flags for the sake of ff3 testers.

For small, simple extensions I'm sure app flags work great, but in the future, AMO should really add multiple version support