Greetings, I have a specialized XUL appication (not a browser extenstion) in a controlled network environment and I would like the application to upgrade itself without any user interaction.
First a little background. This is a stand-alone app that launches using the -chrome parameter (so the normal firefox UI is not present). The application talks to a remote server via TCP sockets as part of it's normal operation. It also checks for updates to itself with the remote sever in a non-XUL standard way (using the sockets). If it finds an update, it downloads the XPI file over raw TCP sockets and writes it to the local disk. At this point, what I would like to do is simply invoke the installation of the XPI file directly without any user interaction, but i haven't figured out how to do this. Using InstallTrigger.install does not seem to work. I simply get a -210 (USER_CANCELLED) passed to the callback function. So I gave up on using InstallTrigger.install. Instead, my current solution to this is to just launch a firefox window pointed at the XPI file and then close the app window. This launches the firefox UI with the "confirm XPI install" dialog displayed, the user presses "install", the extension manager window is opened requiring the user to close it and the extraneous firefox window. Then the app can be re-launched with the new version. What I'm interested in doing is have the XPI installation be invoked directly by my XUL app with no user interaction required. I think there's got to be some way. Any guidance? Thanks, -m. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpinstall mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpinstall
