[ubuntu-users] Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox browser

[Andrew Farris]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:21 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:55 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:39 -0600, Ted Hilts wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > then where are all the usual ad-ons associated with the Firefox browser 
> > > or maybe they  just were not on the DVD I obtained from the Ubuntu user 
> > > magazine.  
> > 
> > If you're looking for a specific add-on, you will usually find them in
> > add/remove, or synaptic, but if they're not there, then use the add-ons
> > menu from firefox itself ("Tools > Add-ons" from within Firefox). This
> > gives you access to the whole web repository of plugins.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Andrew
> 
> 
> My question, do the debs just add script to download the latest version
> which is mostly what people want or does it add a specific version of a
> firefox addon?
> 
> If the later is the case, I don't think browser addons should even be in
> the repositories.
> 
> 
> jay

After looking at a few of the included files in some add-ons I installed
from the repos, they look like re-packaged versions of the add-ons from
the firefox website.

The only advantage I see to this method, is that the 'official' firefox
addon download location doesnt have 'authentication'...which is why you
have to click the 'I accept' to the "make sure you trust this source
blah blah blah" box every time you install a plugin from there. From the
repos, the source is definitely trusted.

+.02

-- 
Andrew
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