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

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Rudi Hoeben
  In chel di` si favelave...

> I am afraid I tend to disagree on Thunderbird and centrally installed
> extensions. From the release notes from Thunderbird 78.0
> (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.0/releasenotes/) :
> "changed  **As of version 78.0, "sideloaded" extensions are no longer
> supported. Enterprise administrators can deploy extensions using policies."
> I should expect the developers of Thunderbird to know ...

Ah! I've missed that!!!

I've re-check all the stuff, and i confirm that. The two extensions
that appear to work if 'system installed'/sideloaded was simply
installed (probably for a test) *also* in my user, and was simply lying
around. Sorry to all for the mistake.


So, seems that in this TB go a bit ahead of FF.


So, seems that the only way to install extensions in TB is:

1) install at profile startup/upgrade in /distribution/extensions
 (still works). Easy, but extensions are not maneageable (eg, user can
deinstall it).

2) use policy.


Right, Mike? ;-)



Just because i'm here.


Can i ask for a policy feature, speaking about 'JSON' (native) policy?

Can i ask for a 'split file' configuration?


I've just tested and i can add policy via direct registry editing (as
Chrome; but in Chrome is a documented even if deprecated feature), so
for now i've solved, but it is a bit hard to do different configuration
for different (set of) machines with a single 'policy.json' file... the
configuration system have to do direct in-file editing, and is a lot
easer to simply 'readup' a bounch of file in a folder...


Thanks.

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