I'm looking into what we can do on the ESR. Mike
On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 9:56 AM James Pearson <jame...@moving-picture.com> wrote: > Is it likely that Mozilla will re-think this change as far as ESR is > concerned? > > i.e. allow 'sideloading' of extensions in all future releases of ESR - > potentially controlled via a Policy ? > > Thanks > > James Pearson > > Mike Kaply wrote: > > > > You can deploy extensions as a part of Firefox by putting them in the > distribution/extensions directory and then locking them via policy. > > > > This has always been a better way then putting them in system > directories where they might not get updated properly. > > > > Mike > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:47 AM Luca Olivetti <l...@wetron.es<mailto: > l...@wetron.es>> wrote: > > El 1/11/19 a les 14:26, Mike Kaply ha escrit: > >> This method was deprecated by Chrome years ago and we provide new and > >> better methods via policy. > > > > If I wanted to deploy chrome I would be deploying chrome. Maybe it would > > spare me a lot of headaches. > > > >> > >> As it stands today, any extension installed by these mechanisms gets > >> disabled anyway. > >> > >> And we've actually made deployment easier with each release. > > > > Not really if you remove facilities that have been working since day one > > (I've been deploying mozilla since it was a monolithic application, and > > I preferred it that way, just one application to deploy instead of two > > that have a lot of overlap). > > Maybe I wasn't using a "sanctioned" method to to the deployment, but > > that was just because there was *no* method to do it when I started > > doing it, hence, with each new release, I had to jump through hoops to > > keep it working. > > Anyway, the "new", "improved" methods are less straightforward than the > > old fashioned ones. > > > > Bye > > > > -- > > Luca Olivetti > > Wetron Automation Technology http://www.wetron.es/ > > Tel. +34 93 5883004 (Ext.3010) Fax +34 93 5883007 > > _______________________________________________ > > Enterprise mailing list > > Enterprise@mozilla.org<mailto:Enterprise@mozilla.org> > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > enterprise-requ...@mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise-requ...@mozilla.org> > with a subject of "unsubscribe" > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Enterprise mailing list > > Enterprise@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > enterprise-requ...@mozilla.org with a subject of "unsubscribe" > > > >
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