783681 - Drop support for existing addons system, along with language packs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

We're not going to be immediately supporting addons, and when we support them, we'll be supporting Addons SDK addons only.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Initial removal:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783681

Comment 2

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Fixing breakage:
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/6bb07949d6b2

Comment 3

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Removing more from the build output:
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/c0716909a1ba

Comment 4

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Removing addons from the settings charm:
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/81f056de026d

Comment 5

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Removed addon updating system, locale switcher:
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/e59e34c28f7f

Comment 6

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Got rid of the remaining UI and resources:
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/afcabd028c6b
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/91801457e863

Since it's still possible to inject addons  (which is really dangerous now since there's no UI to disable addons with), as in <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773514#c3>, is it possible for us to somehow disable all XPI extension support when running in -metro or -metrodesktop?  I'm not sure what implications this would have on running tests, though.

Comment 7

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Resolving bugs in the Firefox for Metro product that are fixed on the elm branch.  Sorry for the bugspam.  Search your email for "bugspam-elm" if you want to find and delete all of these messages at once.