Re: Support for dropping XPI files into the extension install locations might be going away
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cheers,
mike
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From: "Dave Townsend" <dtow...@mozilla.com>
Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 6:23 pm
Subject: Support for dropping XPI files into the extension install locations might be going away
To: <dev-apps...@lists.mozilla.org>
For some time now Firefox has supported a way of installing extensions
that involves simply copying the extension's XPI file into one of the
extension install locations. The next time Firefox runs it would pop up
the install dialog for the extension and allow the user to choose
whether to install it or not.
I don't know how many people use this feature and while the code to do
it (at least for the profile folder) isn't terribly complex, it is
additional code that may not be necessary. Right now the new add-ons
manager doesn't support it and I've heard only a couple of people
comment on its absence but nightly testers are by no means
representational so I'm asking a little more widely whether people have
a real need for keeping this working in Firefox 4?
To be clear we aren't talking about the method of installing where you
extract your extension into a directory in the install locations, nor
are we talking about the method where you create a text file in the
install location containing the path to your extension.
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sabret00the
vast majority of users won't even know this is gone.
i Drugoy
> This isn't the same as dragging and dropping onto Firefox the UI. The
> vast majority of users won't even know this is gone.
Oh, thx for explanation, sorry then, I thought about drag-n-drop *.xpi
going to be cut.
Never mind, then.