<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm looking into what we can do on the ESR.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 9:56 AM James Pearson <<a href="mailto:james-p@moving-picture.com">james-p@moving-picture.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is it likely that Mozilla will re-think this change as far as ESR is <br>
concerned?<br>
<br>
i.e. allow 'sideloading' of extensions in all future releases of ESR - <br>
potentially controlled via a Policy ?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
James Pearson<br>
<br>
Mike Kaply wrote:<br>
> <br>
> You can deploy extensions as a part of Firefox by putting them in the distribution/extensions directory and then locking them via policy.<br>
> <br>
> This has always been a better way then putting them in system directories where they might not get updated properly.<br>
> <br>
> Mike<br>
> <br>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:47 AM Luca Olivetti <<a href="mailto:luca@wetron.es" target="_blank">luca@wetron.es</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:luca@wetron.es" target="_blank">luca@wetron.es</a>>> wrote:<br>
> El 1/11/19 a les 14:26, Mike Kaply ha escrit:<br>
>> This method was deprecated by Chrome years ago and we provide new and<br>
>> better methods via policy.<br>
> <br>
> If I wanted to deploy chrome I would be deploying chrome. Maybe it would<br>
> spare me a lot of headaches.<br>
> <br>
>><br>
>> As it stands today, any extension installed by these mechanisms gets<br>
>> disabled anyway.<br>
>><br>
>> And we've actually made deployment easier with each release.<br>
> <br>
> Not really if you remove facilities that have been working since day one<br>
> (I've been deploying mozilla since it was a monolithic application, and<br>
> I preferred it that way, just one application to deploy instead of two<br>
> that have a lot of overlap).<br>
> Maybe I wasn't using a "sanctioned" method to to the deployment, but<br>
> that was just because there was *no* method to do it when I started<br>
> doing it, hence, with each new release, I had to jump through hoops to<br>
> keep it working.<br>
> Anyway, the "new", "improved" methods are less straightforward than the<br>
> old fashioned ones.<br>
> <br>
> Bye<br>
> <br>
> --<br>
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