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One day your ads +</I>>><i> ands scripts are blocked and the other day they are not. Great user +</I>>><i> experience.. +</I>>>><i> The large advantage of packaged extensions is that they are managed +</I>>>><i> by sysadmins, instead of users, which makes a difference when they +</I>>>><i> are different people. +</I>>><i> And even larger disadvantage comes in when they are not updated. +</I>>><i> Contain memory leaks and so on. The biggest problem here is that the +</I>>><i> packager who imported those addons is not keeping them up-to-date. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Sysadmin can copy those extensions into place anyway. Then it's up to +</I>>><i> him/her to keep them up-to-date. Currently we have to take care of +</I>>><i> that and we don't (or if anyone wants to claim that we do then we do +</I>>><i> it really poorly as there are already newer versions of addons that +</I>>><i> got pushed with latest update). +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> -- +</I>>><i> Sander +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> Well, as there are mostly no bigger changes like in %files, can't an +</I>><i> update of those addons +</I>><i> be scripted or automated halfway? So someone just needs to push this +</I>><i> prior to a Firefox update? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Not saying i have an opinion pro or against packaged addons, but it is +</I>><i> really a nuisance +</I>><i> as those who do the Firefox update also need to update all those addons, +</I>><i> which is unfair, +</I>><i> seems to me if it's not the importer/maintainer of those addons who does +</I>><i> the update. +</I>><i> +</I>I don't know how mageia-packaged firefox has changed things, but official ff +now automatically accepts any extensions that are compatible, updating their +version compatibility, and disables those using statements no longer +compatible. For individual users, this should be more than adequate, since the +extension manager can be used to update extensions as necessary. (As well as +automatic notification. I would recommend that most ordinary users rely on +ff's buildin extension manager, unless they are maintaining more than 1 computer. + +Although I often forget about it, the case where administrators manage software +installation, and not ordinary users, updates are somewhat different -- but sys +admins would be able to deal with it (by downloading the extension and +installing locally) whenever the extension package is not yet available. So +although it may be inconvenient, missing extension packages is not a blocker. +Note that it would be preferable that we package ff so that compatible +extensions are automatically updated, if possible. (Maybe that is already the +case.) +If ff is so packaged, packaging extensions becomes less urgent. + +BTW, I would suggest that packaged extensions contain a note that recommends +that ordinary users use ff's buildin extension manager to install extensions. +Note that ff extensions will now normally install in seamonkey (iceape) as well. +-- +André +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007569.html">[Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release firefox-ext-add-on-compatibility-reporter-0.9-1.mga2 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007560.html">[Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release firefox-ext-add-on-compatibility-reporter-0.9-1.mga2 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7570">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7570">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7570">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7570">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |