Firefox 1.5 and extensions

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:08:05AM +0100, Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org> wrote:
> Hey Mike and everyone else,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:18:22PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > If you receive this email, that means that I found your email in the
> > Maintainer field for packages that might have problems with the upcoming
> > Firefox 1.5.
> 
> Gah, I intended to have a working Catalan package as soon as Firefox was
> released, but have been sitting on it for a while due to some questions.
> 
> > The main thing you have to care about is that
> > update-mozilla-firefox-chrome has been removed. This means that your
> > maintainer scripts, as they are will fail with Firefox 1.5.
> > 
> > As most of the locale packages depend on the version of Firefox, most
> > won't have any problem, if you take care of removing the
> > update-mozilla-firefox-chrome call in your scripts in the package you
> > will target for Firefox 1.5.
> 
> Ok, I have done this, but I now wonder if I need to keep registering the
> extension using the UUID. For some reason, the Catalan xpi doesn't
> declare an ID anymore in install.rdf, so I'm a bit lost.

Indeed, any directory name in the extensions directory is actually ok,
but that's strange there's no UUID... could you send me the xpi so that
I can take a look ?

Cheers,

Mike