Distributing Firefox updates as XPIs

Michael Beattie mtbeedee at gmail.com
Fri May 13 01:09:55 UTC 2005


I dont know why they just dont make a new package with the new version
when one is available from the author...

On 5/12/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> Is there any reason why Firefox updates couldn't be
> distributed as XPIs? I just tried to download a Firefox
> extension, and I was told that I couldn't do so until I
> upgraded Firefox to 1.04. I'm running a 100% Ubuntu system,
> so I hesitate to upgrade such things outside of apt-get. But
> even with Debianized Ubuntu, users can still upgrade their
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins directory. So I'd like to see
> changes to the product pushed into XPIs if possible.
> 
> Is there any reason why this is infeasible? One nice way to
> make it work is to label the 1.04-upgrade XPI incompatible
> with Firefox 1.04 itself; then if your site admin upgraded
> Firefox to the latest version, Firefox would stop using the
> XPI that you'd installed in your home directory.
> 
> Just a thought. Maybe I'll file a wishlist bug on this.
> 
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