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

[James Pearson]

As I just happen to setting up ESR 68 (on Linux) with a couple of third 
party extensions that I want to be loaded by default - this thread is 
rather timely ...

However, what policy settings do I need to have an arbitrary extension 
enabled by default for all users?

I've put the extensions in distribution/extensions - but they don't 
appear in the extensions list when running Firefox

Also, I don't want these extensions to be installed in a user's profile 
- just loaded from the install tree

Thanks

James Pearson

Mike Kaply wrote:
> 
> 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<mailto: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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