Now that you mention Firefox extensions, I do recall having to add a step since FF4. You can see it in more detail at the wiki page for Firefox. Basically you have now have to add a registry key for globally installed extensions: <install cmd='%COMSPEC% /C reg add "HKLM\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions" /v %extid% /d "%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\%extid%" /f' /> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Falko Trojahn <nospam_ft at smi-softmark.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 14.07.2011 20:05, schrieb Stefan Pendl: >>> >>> On 7/14/2011 12:02 PM, John Danks wrote: >>>> >>>> That's the same type of package definition I use for TB add-ons. I'd >>>> double-check that you extracted the XPI correctly and see if it's >>>> actually getting copied to the correct place. >>>> >>>> sogo-integrator is not addons.mozilla.org and the link to >>> >>> it's website >>>> >>>> from Freshmeat is 404, so maybe the add-on was not updated for the >>>> version of TB you're using? Does it work if you install it manually? >>>> >>> It does work if I install manually. I did upgrade to the latest one >>> also. It does copy to the correct folder and I re-extracted >>> the contents >>> just in case. I am at a loss.Any ideas? >> >> The latest release of Firefox does not extract all add-ons, just the ones >> which really need to. >> >> I am currently installing AddBlockPlus by copying the XPI file to the >> extensions folder, that's all. >> >> You should check if this can be done with the other add-on too. >> >> It seems there is something going on in addition to extracting the add-on >> and this step is currently missing. > > > the new way of mozilla extensions installation I've described here > http://wpkg.org/Firefox#Firefox_3.6_Series_Extension_Templates > and here > http://wpkg.org/Firefox_ext_install_downloads > does work with Firefox 4 and 5, too. > > It seems a bit complicated, but in fact it's easy: for each new > firefox/thunderbird extension you only need a one liner xml and > have to insert two variables for the extension name and key: > http://wpkg.org/Firefox_ext_install_downloads#packages.2Ffirefox-ext-skel.xml > > IMHO same system (using: > http://wpkg.org/Firefox_ext_install_downloads#packages.2Fmozilla.2Finstall-extensions.cmd > ) should work with thunderbird, too. > > Just replace > install-extensions.cmd" Firefox %FXEXT% > to > install-extensions.cmd" Thunderbird %FXEXT% > in > http://wpkg.org/Firefox_ext_install_downloads#templates.2Fff-extension.xml > > As soon as I have some time I'll rework these pages/packages for FF 5 and > make some for TB. > > Best regards, > Falko > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > _______________________________________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users > |