Integrate "Apt-linker" into Firefox

[Micah Gersten]

This was already discussed on the ubuntu-devel-discuss list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2010-July/011875.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2010-July/011887.html

Thanks,
Micah

On 07/12/2010 04:20 AM, Ryan Oram wrote:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11731/
> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47591
> 
> I was just wondering if it would be possible to integrate the
> functionality presented in the extension and Greasemonkey script above
> into the standard Firefox package for Ubuntu. I suppose this also
> could be made a separate package like the various Firefox extensions
> available via apt.
> 
> I'm starting up a "AppUpdate" service for Ubuntu and it would be nice
> to have my users just be able to click on the instructions to install
> the packages. I realize apturl should already be supported out of the
> box, but plain apturls often confuse users.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>