Firefox and Mozilla Update

[Jeff Bailey]

Le mercredi 14 septembre 2005 à 17:25 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:47:21PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >  * As a technical question, should Firefox extensions and themes be
> >    installable by Ubuntu users from Ubuntu universe, or from Mozilla
> >    Update ?  Should Ubuntu users be offered these Mozilla addons via
> >    the Firefox UI ?
> > 
> >    If you answer `both' to the previous question, note that this will
> >    not provide a very good user experience.  It is probably
> >    impractical for us to attempt to allow the user to manage both sets
> >    of extensions through both interfaces, so instead you'll find that
> >    there are two interfaces for extensions some of which are used for
> >    some and some for others.  And if we accept that then we still have
> >    to stop the Ubuntu and Firefox packaging systems fighting each
> >    other.
> 
> Is there any way to make plugins installed by Mozilla Update go to
> /usr/local?

The home directory is probably a better choice, rather than encouraging
people to run the browser as root.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey