Hi, We use Seamonkey in a small company with about 400 PC's (Windows XP) Software is installed only by the administrator, all users run with limited privileges including .xpi installation disabled in a general.config file. We don't want the admin nightmare of all users running with extensions they download themselves and that may cause problems in the program we are not aware of.
I want to deploy one or more extensions to all users. They should be installed (by the admin) into a subdir of the %ProgramFiles% directory, after being verified for compatability with the current version. I am looking for documentation on how to achieve that. I have found http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_extensions but it appears to be out of date. It mentions -install-global-extension is being deprecated, but the http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.14/ still mentions it in the Troubleshooting section. Is it deprecated only for Firefox and still used by Seamonkey? What will it actually do? I have experimented a bit. When I put the extension in the extensions subdirectory of the %ProgramFiles% installation directory, users get prompted about the "newly installed extension" when they first start Seamonkey. I don't like that, I would like the extension to be enabled by default. When I put the extension in the distribution\extensions subdirectory, that appears to do the trick. However, the extension gets copied to the Extensions folder in the profile. As we have roaming profiles, those extensions travel along with the user logging in on different workstation. After upgrading Seamonkey those extensions get checked for compatability with the current version. I don't really like this situation. I would like the extension to remain in the software installation directory and be used by all users of that PC, without getting copied over in the profile. Thay way we can be sure the version of the software and the extension are always compatible (as far as can be tested). Is this possible, and how? Where can I find uptodate documentation for the extensions installation mechanism usable for silent installation? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
