Daniel Veditz wrote:
>
> Tobias Trelle wrote:
> >
> > My request for having an autoRegister feature for XPCOM components
> > posted in bug 74517
> > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74517
> > seems to be fixed by a solution to bug 87913
> > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87913
> > by incorporating the autoregister into
> >
> > navigator.plugins.refresh()
> >
> > To get back to XPInstall: is the navigator object accesible from
> > within a install.js script?
> >
> > Tobias Trelle
>
> The navigator object is not available, but an equivalent "refreshPlugins()"
> method was added to the Install context in mid-March. I will have to check
> to see where the autoReg call was added to see if the Install version will
> pick up the change. If autoReg functionality does not get added to
> navigator.plugins.refresh() --and I don't think it should-- then XPInstall
> should add a refreshComponents() method.
If the fix for bug 87913 becomes making navigator.plugins.refresh() also
cause an autoregister then the XPInstall equivalent will magically start
doing the same thing.
-Dan Veditz
