Hi all,
I'm trying to install a plugin as part of a Firefox extension that I'm developing (using the >= 0.9 Firefox extension API; i.e. install.rdf rather than install.js). Is this possible at all? The Packaging Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions webpage says that "There is now no way of placing files outside of the file structure mandated above during the install process. If you need to modify files elsewhere, you'll have to do it the first time your extension code runs (and then set a pref or something similar so that you don't do it again)." I have two questions:
1. I am happy to put extra code into one of my component registration sections to copy the plugin from the extension's directory to the proper Firefox plugins directory. However, I don't know how to obtain a path to the extension's directory (e.g. on Windows, this would be "C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\xxxx.xxx\extensions\UUID". If I could obtain a path to the extension's directory, I could copy the plugin from there to the user's plugins directory or the system plugin directory, and tell Firefox to rescan the plugin directory, which solves the issue nicely.
2. Will installing plugins be considered part of the Firefox Extension "API" in the future (e.g. for Firefox 1.1)? I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to install a plugin in an FF extension ...
Thanks!
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