666437 - Allow extensions installed from certain locations to be disabled by default

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

To support bug 476430 we want to be able to mark certain install locations as installing their add-ons disabled by default.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Attachment: patch rev 1

This adds the pref extensions.autoDisableScopes. By default it isn't set to anything so all add-ons install enabled as normal.

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Comment on attachment 541226 [details] [diff] [review]
patch rev 1

>diff --git a/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_startup.js b/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_startup.js
>--- a/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_startup.js
>+++ b/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_startup.js
>...
>+}
>\ No newline at end of file
nit

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Landed: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/25b6b9df083e

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Dave, would that require devdoc or userdoc needed?

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Yeah it's probably worth documenting this for other application's that want to use it

Comment 6

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Documentation updated:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Installing_extensions#Preventing_automatic_install_from_specific_locations

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Addons/Add-on_Manager/AddonManager#Installation_scopes

And added to Firefox 8 for developers.

Comment 7

[Vlad [QA]]

Setting resolution to Verified Fixed on 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 beta 6 build 2.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0a2) Gecko/20111102 Firefox/9.0a2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111031 Firefox/10.0a1
also on Ubuntu, MacOS X and WinXP

The extention is disabled at Firefox startup and the warning appears every time.
Also, the pref extensions.autoDisableScopes is present.