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Firefox extensions RPMSFirefox extensions RPMSPosted Jun 8, 2006 3:04 UTC (Thu) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)Parent article: The problem of Firefox in Ubuntu Breezy
The real problem is that firefox uses a stupid extension model. There are some terrific firefox extensions available. However, I want to use my package manager to control them!
Each extension should be in a RPM (or deb), located in a central repository, and, installed system wide, and updated by the distro. In this case, the issue would vanish.
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Firefox extensions RPMS Posted Jun 9, 2006 2:20 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] ... so package the extensions as RPMs or DEBs. If you unzip an extension and place its contents in the right place (/usr/lib/firefox/extensions/$extension-uuid, iirc), firefox will pick it up next time it starts up. Sounds pretty easy to package to me.
Firefox extensions RPMS Posted Sep 25, 2006 18:20 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] Yeah, since 1.5 the system has been sane as you describe. In 1.0 and earlier, however, it was much nastier.
Firefox extensions RPMS Posted Jun 9, 2006 23:31 UTC (Fri) by gerv (subscriber, #3376) [Link] The model you propose is entirely possible; put an extension in the right place using your RPM or DEB, and Firefox will notice and initialise it.
If your distro hasn't packaged the hundreds of extensions on addons.mozilla.org this way, complain to them :-)
Gerv
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