sense of packaging firefox' addons?

[Christopher Aillon]

/me notices this thread a day late....


On 02/27/2008 05:01 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> If you have system-wide plugins and per-user versions of the same
> plugin..how exactly does that interaction work.

Profile wins, then goes up from there.  System installed ones generally 
have least priority.  Version numbers are irrelevant.

> Even in the normal
> install case, there will be times when a user may want to grab a newer
> version of the same plugin that is installed system-wide.  Can we
> really deal with that?

Yes.  It will install into the user's profile directory, not overwrite 
the system one.