Am 26.08.2011 09:50, schrieb Sander Lepik:
26.08.2011 10:27, Guillaume Rousse kirjutas:
I don't see where it is stated than firefox can't get updated until all
extensions in the distributions work with it.
I would call it a regression that shouldn't pass QA. One day your ads ands
scripts are blocked and the other day they are not. Great user experience..
The large advantage of packaged extensions is that they are managed by
sysadmins, instead of users, which makes a difference when they are
different people.
And even larger disadvantage comes in when they are not updated. Contain
memory leaks and so on. The biggest problem here is that the packager who
imported those addons is not keeping them up-to-date.
Sysadmin can copy those extensions into place anyway. Then it's up to him/her
to keep them up-to-date. Currently we have to take care of that and we don't
(or if anyone wants to claim that we do then we do it really poorly as there
are already newer versions of addons that got pushed with latest update).
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Sander
Well, as there are mostly no bigger changes like in %files, can't an update of
those addons
be scripted or automated halfway? So someone just needs to push this prior to a
Firefox update?
Not saying i have an opinion pro or against packaged addons, but it is really a
nuisance
as those who do the Firefox update also need to update all those addons, which
is unfair,
seems to me if it's not the importer/maintainer of those addons who does the
update.
