[Mozilla Enterprise] Using Extensions/ExtensionUpdate drive me mad...

[Marco Gaiarin]

As stated in previous email i'm using (in TB, indeed; but i think
nothing change for FF) Extensions/ExtensionUpdate via direct registry editing
(i don't have GPO) to manage extensions installation.

In WPKG (www.wpkg.org) lingo i do (consider the content of cmd=''):

 <install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c copy /y "%SOFTWARE%\WPKG\dizionario_italiano-5.0.0.1webext.xpi" "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\extensions\it-IT at dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org.xpi"' />
 <install cmd='reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Extensions\Install" /v "1" /t REG_SZ /d "file:///%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\extensions\it-IT at dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org.xpi" /f' />
 <install cmd='reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Extensions\Locked" /v "1" /t REG_SZ /d "it-IT at dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org" /f' />

but also i do something like:

 <install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c copy /y "%SOFTWARE%\WPKG\lookout_fix_version-3.0.3.xpi" "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\extensions\lookout at s3_fix_version.xpi"'/>
 <install cmd='reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Extensions\Install" /v "lookout at s3_fix_version" /t REG_SZ /d "file:///%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\extensions\lookout at s3_fix_version.xpi" /f' />
 <install cmd='reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Extensions\Locked" /v "lookout at s3_fix_version" /t REG_SZ /d "lookout at s3_fix_version" /f' />

and works too, eg in registry the key name seems does not need to be an
integer.


But testing all this stuff are driving me mad, because seems that
thunderbird read the registry only when they want. Or there's other
error condition that prevent TB to read the registry... but after some
time, this error desappear.

Note that i'm using a test user, and i've tried many time to simply
wipe out the profile and restart from an empty user configuration, but
seems does not suffices.


There's some way to:

a) force policy loading at TB/FF startup

b) have a debug of policy loading?


Thanks.

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