Tobias Trelle wrote:
> Mike Shaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>> I'd be against that: it would make some odd install cases harder to
>> diagnose, and optimizing autoregistration seems sort of pointless, since
>> we only do it for debug builds.
>
> It would be nice to have autoregistration in release builds, too. I am
> thinking of a scriptable plug-in (i.e. an XPCOM component) deployed via
> XPInstall. Up to now, the user has to restart the browser before s/he can
> use the component. In the times of SmartUpdate I (as a plug-in developer)
> was able to register a new plug-in at browser runtime without a restart.
You don't want auto-registration, then, because it only happens at
browser startup time. I'm pretty sure an XPInstall package can register
components without a restart, but you'd need to check the docs (cited by
dougt) to be sure.
Mike
