[Mozilla Enterprise] Thunderbird 68.2.0 preinstalling add-ons

[Mike Kaply]

Yes, support for unpacked extensions was removed.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/02/22/removing-support-unpacked-extensions/

Mike

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:56 AM Osdoba, Sascha <S.Osdoba at gsi.de> wrote:

> Ok got it,
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> it must be XPI files with the ID as name but deployed to “C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\distribution\extensions”
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> but before it was working as described …
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> Regards,
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> Sascha
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> *Von:* Mike Kaply <mkaply at mozilla.com>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 25. Oktober 2019 19:11
> *An:* Osdoba, Sascha <S.Osdoba at gsi.de>
> *Cc:* Mozilla.org <enterprise at mozilla.org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Thunderbird 68.2.0 preinstalling
> add-ons
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> They can't be directories.
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> They need to be XPI files named the same as the ID.
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> Mike
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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 10:48 AM Osdoba, Sascha <S.Osdoba at gsi.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> until TB version 60.x I could preinstall addons during TB deployment via
> SCCM per copying to
> "programfiles(x86)"\thunderbird\extensions\extensionID\" (we use TB x86 on
> Windows x64)
> and I deployed 5 or 6 addons without problems. Now with 68.2.0 its not
> working this way anymore but I did not find any documentation about a
> change.
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> Somewhere was mentioned to deploy it to "%programfiles(x86)%\mozilla
> thunderbird\distribution\extensions\extensionID\" but that did not work too.
>
> I am trying to deploy following addons (most of them are updated and are
> known as ready for 68.x):
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> tbsync at jobisoft.de
> de_DE at dicts.j3e.de
> @unitedstatesenglishdictionary
> dav4tbsync at jobisoft.de
> eas4tbsync at jobisoft.de
> langpack-en-GB at thunderbird.mozilla.org
>
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> Any help is welcome.
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> Thanks,
>
> Sascha Osdoba
>
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