sense of packaging firefox' addons?

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek jakub.rusinek at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 05:47:11 UTC 2008


Jeff Spaleta pisze:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Andrew Farris<lordmorgul at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   My point was that it will take *much longer* to get done than if the user can
>>   simply click an .xpi and restart their browser.  Frankly, if you set aside
>>   security or stability concerns, it seems like a *major waste* to go to the
>>   effort of packaging extensions.  The existing framework for their deployment
>>   works very well.
>
> Even if there is utility for some individual sites to have packages
> and to lockdown firefox's plugin ability.. it might not make sense for
> Fedora to provide those packages.
>

Agree.




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