[wpkg-users] Thunderbird extensions

[John Danks]

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
>
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