[solved] difference between firefox official extension and from repo

nTia89 · 2011-09-07 08:33:23

hi to everybody,

which are the differences between installing firefox addons from our repo and from official firefox site ?

thanks

Last edited by nTia89 (2011-09-07 09:18:39)

karol · 2011-09-07 08:50:43

Not sure what you mean, but if you install sth from the repos, you can remove and update it via pacman.

Edit: Hey, I didn't know we have firefox-adblock-plus and firefox-noscript :-)

Last edited by karol (2011-09-07 08:53:21)

lolilolicon · 2011-09-07 08:52:28

The repo packages install addons to /usr/lib/firefox-*/extensions/, which is globally accessible. Since this location requires root privilege to write to, these addons cannot be updated through the in-browser firefox addon update.

Installing addons from the official addons site the usual way, however, installs the addons to your current profile directory, eg ~/.mozilla/fireofx/xxxxxxxx.default/extensions/, and as usual can be updated through firefox addon update. Addons installed this way can only be accessed when using this profile.

nTia89 · 2011-09-07 09:18:29

thanks lolilolicon

solved

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#1 2011-09-07 08:33:23

[solved] difference between firefox official extension and from repo

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