Re: [Gnash-dev] Firefox 3.6 requires XPI for third party components

[dolphinling]

On 01/21/2010 10:50 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.6_for_developers
>
> Found this tidbit.  Does it affect the gnash Firefox plugin?
>
>    Firefox will no longer load third-party components installed in its
>    internal components directory. This helps to ensure stability by
>    preventing buggy third-party components from being
>    executed. Developers that install components this way must repackage
>    their components as XPI packages so they can be installed as
>    standard add-ons.

No, it doesn't affect gnash. Gnash is not installed in the components directory.

(This mostly affects extensions[1] with binary components that were installed 
for all users of a computer and whose developers were too lazy to figure out how 
to do it right. Also, malware.)


[1] For those who don't know the terminology of extension vs plugin in the 
Mozilla world, an extension is a change or addition to the browser itself, 
whereas a plugin is closer to a separate program that merely displays in part of 
a browser window. The combination of extensions, plugins, and themes is called 
add-ons

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