961999 - Make extensions.checkCompatibility only apply to specific add-ons

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Right now, extensions.checkCompatibility is a rather large and indiscriminate hammer - affecting *all* add-ons. Now that we have compatible-by-default, and we know it's working remarkably well (woo!), we can reconsider how the checkCompatibility pref works. I think it still has it's uses, but should be used as a last resort - so instead should be made to be a lot more specific, affecting only specific add-ons. ie:

  extensions.checkCompatibility.<APPVERSION>.<ADDONID> = false



There's the question of whether we should have a variant that limits it to a given add-on version too:

  extensions.checkCompatibility.<APPVERSION>.<ADDONID>.<ADDONVERSION> = false

But I'm sceptical of how often this would be used given the pref that doesn't include the add-on version, which is easier to use. And requiring the add-on version may be *too* annoying at this stage. So it's probably not worth implementing at the moment.



(See bug 956990 comment 2 for more background thoughts on this general problem.)

Comment 1

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