Closed Bug 598026 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

-install-global-extension seems to be broken (Firefox 3.6.8 & 3.6.10)

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: neswal.peter, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) installing add-on with the command line switch "-install-global-extension" has no effect - just a new instance of firefox is started we are using this functionality since 2.x to install common add-on's (like language packs) - and we recognized this failure at least since version 3.6.8) - failure was verified on Windowx XP SP3+ 32bit and Windows XP SP2+/Windows Server 2003r2 64bit Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download de.xpi from version matching language packs 2.{path}\firefox.exe -install-global-extension {path to xpi}\de.xpi 3.no effect - a new instance of firefox appears We set severity to "major" since deployment of firefox is strongly handicapped if common add-on's can not be automatically deployed also
This has been removed. bug 396510
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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