632637 - Extension onInstall, onUpgrade event

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 416246

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Yansky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110208 Firefox/4.0b12pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110208 Firefox/4.0b12pre

I've been using this method in my extension to run some code on installation/upgrade: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/On_page_load#Running_code_on_an_extension.27s_first_run_or_after_an_extension.27s_update

But I've never really been happy with that method. It feels a bit hackish. 

What I would really like is to have an event that I could hook into.

e.g.

Application.addEventListener('extensionInstall',function(e,ID){
  if(ID==myExtensionID){
    //run some code on first install of extension
  }
},false);

Application.addEventListener('extensionUpgrade',function(e,ID){
  if(ID==myExtensionID){
    //run some code on upgrade of extension
  }
},false);


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Basically bug 416246 although that may end up not getting implemented now bootstrap scripts already have this. Also the new AddonManager sends out very good event notifications for this sort of thing.