Hi everyone,
Last night I landed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627240
which makes us install ChatZilla, venkman, DOM Inspector and DebugQA
into user profiles instead of directly using them from the application
folder. They now reside in distribution/extensions in the application
folder and get copied over to the profile 1) if the application version
has changed (or the profile is new) and 2) (AFAIK) if the add-on version
in the profile is older then the one in the application.
For normal users (of betas and final versions), this means that starting
with 2.1 Beta 3, they can handle those extensions just like every other
add-on they install, they can update those from AMO without problems if
they like, they can even uninstall them from their profiles just like
every other add-on. And if they don't update them and we ship a newer
version with a SeaMonkey update, they actually get that add-on update
from our version.
So far, so good. For nightly users, this means that you might end up
with that copy into your profile not happening as it should and not
seeing the add-ons at all. When this happens, you can trigger the
add-ons check that also triggers the copy into your profile by going to
about:config and setting extensions.lastAppVersion to something else
than the current version, then restarting SeaMonkey.
Doing that, the add-ons should be back and working normally.
Unfortunately, making things better for beta/release users does in this
instance cause small inconveniences for nightly users. We have some
ideas on how this could be mitigated, but that probably will need fixes
in toolkit's add-ons manager backend.
Robert Kaiser
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