[wpkg-users] Firefox 8 and extension deployment

[chiddie]

chiddie wrote:
> 
> Are you sure that Firefox 8 extensions deployment is the same as Firefox
> 4?
> 
> I followed the instructions in the "Firefox 4 Series Extensions" section
> of the wpkg firefox page, but, even if after the installation i see the
> folder with the GUID number in the \firefox\extensions\ folder, and even
> if i see the registry key in the
> "HKLM\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions" path, when i launch the program
> and i go to see the extensions panel, it's empty.
> 
> If i try to install the .xpi directly from the browser, it is indeed
> installed, but i have no idea about where the system put the addon files
> (surely not under \firefox\extensions\ and surely there's no
> "HKLM\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions" key added by the browser
> installation).
> 
> Can anyone help me? The addon is "dizionario_italiano-3.3.1-tb+fx+sm.xpi".
> 
> Thank you!
> 
Ok, i made some steps ahead.

For a reason i don't know, on the machines i have to upgrade Firefox, the
"leading" directory for the browser extension is not \\programfiles\mozilla
firefox\extension, nor \\commonprogramfiles\mozilla shared\extension, but is
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\randomstring.default\extensions.

That's basically why the deployment was not working: unless i put the
un-compressed extension folder in the %userprofile% folder, firefox won't
see the extension (it then asks me to install it, but i don't know if
there's a way to avoid this check).

So, the next question is: since WPKG does not accept the %userprofile%
variable, how can i re-arrange the script in order to make it copy the
extension folder in the username destination folder (keep in mind that the
randomtring.default folder is, well... random, so it changes depending on
the target machine)?
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