Ulf Zibis Reporter
	Description • 13 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

I moved most of my Add-ons to "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\extensions.


Actual results:

They got automatically updated via update from 4.0.1 to 5.0, but that's all.
Now I have few incompatible Add-ons. If they would become compatible some day, I can't have them updated, if the are installed globally. That more than a pity.
They will reside there for ever :-(



Expected results:

Please make globally installed Add-ons updatable!

	Ulf Zibis Reporter
	Comment 1 • 13 years ago

I can make them enabled via "Addon Compatiblity Reporter", but that's a security risk.

	Ulf Zibis Reporter
	Comment 3 • 13 years ago

(In reply to Dave Townsend (:Mossop) from bug 300967 comment #30)
> We're not going to support automatically updating extensions in anywhere
> other than the profile.

This statement appears wrong!
I updated FF from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1.
After restart I was informed, that the 'Minimap Addon' is no more compatible.
(Version 0.3.13 was installed globally)
I acknowledged for search for compatible updates.
After, version 0.3.17 was automatically installed properly in global extensions folder.
As we can see, global extensions update (1) is possible and (2) happens under the condition, that add-on became incompatible.
So please make global extensions up-datable, automatically and/or via Add-ons Manager, even if they are just outdated.