When deploying a XPCOM component (e.g. for a scriptable plug-in) via XPInstall it is not possible to register and use this component without restarting the browser at this point of time. In the good old days of SmartUpdate I was able to do so by calling navigator.plugins.refresh(false); from my installation script. When will we see a feature like this in XPInstall? Regards, Tobias Trelle

Currently, there exists Install.refreshPlugins(). This allows a plugin to become accessible without having to restart the browser. Does this address your need?

No, he wants XPCOM components. *Similar* to what 4.x did with refreshing plugins. I swear I had a bug on this, it was even one of my nsbeta1+ bugs, but it's gone. Until I find the other one I'm promoting this one

Jesse's patch for bug 87913 should fix this. Marked as dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87913 ***

Note: Jesse's patch for bug 87913 WILL, as Chad Austin has observed, allow a component to be installed without restarting the browser. It will NOT, however, answer Tobias Trelle's request to be able to do this via XPInstall. I'm remarking this as a duplicate of bug 88443, since this is in fact the REAL Dupe counterpart of this bug. In order to do this, I'm temporarily reopening.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88443 ***

Bug 88443 marked verified. Marking this verified.