[Mozilla Enterprise] Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox

[Mike Kaply]

You can deploy extensions as a part of Firefox by putting them in the
distribution/extensions directory and then locking them via policy.

This has always been a better way then putting them in system directories
where they might not get updated properly.

Mike

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:47 AM Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es> wrote:

> El 1/11/19 a les 14:26, Mike Kaply ha escrit:
> > This method was deprecated by Chrome years ago and we provide new and
> > better methods via policy.
>
> If I wanted to deploy chrome I would be deploying chrome. Maybe it would
> spare me a lot of headaches.
>
> >
> > As it stands today, any extension installed by these mechanisms gets
> > disabled anyway.
> >
> > And we've actually made deployment easier with each release.
>
> Not really if you remove facilities that have been working since day one
> (I've been deploying mozilla since it was a monolithic application, and
> I preferred it that way, just one application to deploy instead of two
> that have a lot of overlap).
> Maybe I wasn't using a "sanctioned" method to to the deployment, but
> that was just because there was *no* method to do it when I started
> doing it, hence, with each new release, I had to jump through hoops to
> keep it working.
> Anyway, the "new", "improved" methods are less straightforward than the
> old fashioned ones.
>
> Bye
>
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> Luca Olivetti
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