[Mozilla Enterprise] Installing extensions systemwide... someone yes, someone no?

[Mike Kaply]

You should open a bugzilla bug in Thunderbird for this.

Mike

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 8:57 AM Marco Gaiarin <gaio at sv.lnf.it> wrote:

> Mandi! Rudi Hoeben
>   In chel di` si favelave...
>
> > As far as my experience goes: Firefox does not support centrally
> installed
> > extensions, Firefox ESR does support centrally installed extensions,
> > Thunderbird does not support centrally installed extensions.
>
> I don't speak about FF 'rolling release', but at least for FF ESR AND
> Thunderbird centrally installed extensions DOES works, fully for FF,
> with some glitches from TB.
>
> As stated in my original email, some TB extensions works:
>
> + https://addons.thunderbird.net/it/thunderbird/addon/dizionario-italiano/
>   copy /y "dizionario_italiano-5.0.0.1webext.xpi" "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla
> Thunderbird\extensions\it-IT at dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org.xpi"
>   WORKS
>
> + https://addons.mozilla.org/it/thunderbird/addon/lookout-fix-version/
>   copy /y "lookout_fix_version-3.0.3.xpi" "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla
> Thunderbird\extensions\lookout at s3_fix_version.xpi"
>   WORKS
>
> +
> https://addons.mozilla.org/it/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/
>   copy /y "provider_for_google_calendar-78.0.1.xpi"
> "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla
> Thunderbird\extensions\{a62ef8ec-5fdc-40c2-873c-223b8a6925cc}.xpi"
>   WORKS
>
> But some not:
>
> + https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/tbsync/
>   copy /y "tbsync-2.19.xpi" "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla
> Thunderbird\extensions\tbsync at jobisoft.de.xpi"
>   DOES NOT WORK
>
>
> > I solved my thunderbird problem with a policies.json file:
>
> This indeed works, it is the 'new' way of managing extensions, more
> 'Chrome like' (right, Mike?), but i prefere the old because in this way
> extensions are user-installed and (a little, indeed) hog the user
> profile, and i've fine grain control of extensions versions, that are a
> bit complex with policies (in my opinion).
>
> Thanks.
>
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