Closed Bug 1215066 Opened 9 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Bundling of native executables with extensions

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
Untriaged
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: gkrizsanits, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed][triaged]) 

The connectNative API would be used to connect to the app. Since we'll stop supporting NPAPI I can imagine that there will be a fairly high demand for this feature. (Chrome requires the executable to be shipped separately)
Flags: blocking-webextensions-
Whiteboard: triaged
Whiteboard: triaged → [design-decision-needed][triaged]
There isn't any real enthusiasm for this feature from what I've seen. There's quite a few reasons for this:
* the management of the extension on AMO is way harder and full of footguns
* the installation and set up of that native executable has to be done
* it ties together the update of the add-on to the native executable
* the native executables aren't reviewable by AMO
* ... and basically I don't believe we should be installing executables on peoples computers from a browser

We did a lot of work to get away from doing this in the past and its got to be a pretty good reason to go back to it.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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