On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 11:14 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 05:28, Christoph Wickert > <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 09.10.2011, 12:58 +0200 schrieb drago01: > >> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Christoph Wickert > >> <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Am Sonntag, den 09.10.2011, 11:34 +0200 schrieb drago01: > >> >> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Christoph Wickert > >> >> <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >> That just reminds me while packing firefox extensions is not a good idea. > > > > How else would you install an extension globally for all users? > > > > How many multi-user systems run firefox from them? At the university > where I used to work we "had" this and it was awful because the tool > itself isn't written for this use case. This was a problem in 2008.. > it hasn't gotten any better since then. Very few applications are > written with the "old" world view of centralizing usage. It doesn't > fit either the largest use case (one user->one device) or the newer > "centralized" usage where items are in a cloud and gotten through a > "portal" system. I think our old way of doing things is becoming a > corner case to be routed around. Yeah. FWIW I just don't use the Fedora packaged extensions; I use adblock plus, but I install it via Firefox's add-on system, not from the package. I'm pretty sympathetic to Smooge's view here, Firefox just isn't really designed for add-ons to be installed via distro packages, it seems. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
