Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 04:14 -0600, Arthur Pemberton a écrit : > 2008/2/28 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 13:22 -0800, Andrew Farris a écrit : > > > > > > > The builtin firefox addon update system works far faster for most desktop users > > > than getting a new rpm packaged, built, and shipped... > > > > I works far faster for update freaks that love hunting the internet for > > software bits and always update to the latest version. > > You know Firefox checks for updates automatically, right? Ever tried to use this behind a corporate firewall? The firefox system is a joke, can't even use its own proxy settings, it only sort-of works for home users. > > It's pretty > > useless for the large class of users who want their apps to just work > > Requiring admin to install some addons via RPMs is your idea of just work? That's how it works both in corporate context and in computer-illiterate nephew-support contexts. > > and are not willing to invest large parts of their time in extension > > hunting. > > As opposed to searching through the repos with yum for the extension > you want? How much easier is that than going to addons.mozilla.org? Our package descriptions are localized. addons.mozilla.org is English-only. Even ignoring the various ways the Firefox extension system is broken, this alone makes it unsuitable for a large class of users. > > And some extensions have been known to have security holes, so > > relying on users to update extensions when all do not is going to bite > > us sooner or later. > > So the users won't hit install when Firefox offers them the updates, > but they will run yum update to get updates? Many users have learnt that "just-say-no" is the right answer to any browser popups > > The Firefox addon update system is far from awesome when you're the one > > who has to install and update Firefox extensions manually on a pool of > > systems because users don't bother (additionally that's one reason > > And how many people are there like that? Only needs one to justify a Fedora package. > You know you can just create > your own RPM for your pool of users, and get what you want done. > > > Firefox fares so bad in the enterprise — geek-oriented installation > > system without any provision for centralised management). > > What kind of enterprise is willing to run Firefox on Linux but not > willing to roll out their own supplemental apt/yum repository? The kind of enterprise that decides it has better ways of spending money than filling out the missing pieces in Fedora. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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