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

[Mike Kaply]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:05 AM Marco Gaiarin <gaio at sv.lnf.it> wrote:

> 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? ;-)
>

Yes. I recommend policy.


>
>
>
> 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?
>

Feel free to open a bug with more detail.


>
>
> 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...
>

Is there any reason you're not using group policy?


>
>
> Thanks.
>
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