Randy Wyatt wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:37:35PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
can simply click an .xpi and restart their browser. Frankly, if you
set aside security or stability concerns, it seems like a *major
waste* to go to the effort of packaging extensions. The existing
framework for their deployment works very well.
All,
Look at the number of updates for certain critical extensions such as
NoScript, and then judge about security versus maintainability. Quite
Often, the update within Firefox doesn't contain the latest version. I
would much rather the users take a suggestion about which updates should
be included if a popup appears when they start their browser.
And I keep a running log of the latest and greatest software which they
have learned through extreme coercive techniques to consult before
installing something willy-nilly
Bravo, afterall.. no security policy is 100% adequate to prevent a user from
doing something very stupid. Not updating adblock plus or noscript frequently
makes them ineffective, and if you're only providing the very first version via
system-wide install and then permitting the user's profile to update a local
extension version that seems a little silly to me.
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