Closed Bug 696701 Opened 11 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Parse OS/ABI/version flags in chrome manifests when detecting binary components

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Add-ons Manager
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: Unfocused, Unassigned)

References

Details

Bug 693899 adds support for detecting binary components. Should be able to get rid of some additional false-positives by also parsing the OS/ABI/app/version flags, since addons might use js-ctypes but fallback to binary components for older platform versions (for example).
Blocks: 422939
Loading binary components from extensions is not going to be supported after support for non-WebExtensions had ended: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/

The supported way to interact with native apps from a WebExtension is Native Messaging:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Native_Messaging
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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