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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release	firefox-ext-add-on-compatibility-reporter-0.9-1.mga2</H1>
    <B>Guillaume Rousse</B> 
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    <I>Fri Aug 26 10:15:11 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 26/08/2011 09:50, Sander Lepik wrote:
&gt;<i> 26.08.2011 10:27, Guillaume Rousse kirjutas:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I don't see where it is stated than firefox can't get updated until
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> all extensions in the distributions work with it.
</I>&gt;<i> I would call it a regression that shouldn't pass QA. One day your ads
</I>&gt;<i> ands scripts are blocked and the other day they are not. Great user
</I>&gt;<i> experience..
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> The large advantage of packaged extensions is that they are managed by
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> sysadmins, instead of users, which makes a difference when they are
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> different people.
</I>&gt;<i> And even larger disadvantage comes in when they are not updated. Contain
</I>&gt;<i> memory leaks and so on. The biggest problem here is that the packager
</I>&gt;<i> who imported those addons is not keeping them up-to-date.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Sysadmin can copy those extensions into place anyway. Then it's up to
</I>&gt;<i> him/her to keep them up-to-date. Currently we have to take care of that
</I>&gt;<i> and we don't (or if anyone wants to claim that we do then we do it
</I>&gt;<i> really poorly as there are already newer versions of addons that got
</I>&gt;<i> pushed with latest update).
</I>And how are firefox extensions different than the rest of the 
distribution for both of your points ?

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