Re: Setting plugin activation state from addons

You can verify this like so:
* use a new profile in Aurora or Nightly
* install the old add-on version that doesn’t have the pref
* check that your plugin is click-to-play on sites that use it (without allowing it there)
* install your add-on
* check that your plugin is now always active on the sites


Georg

On 13 Mar 2014, at 15:33, Marcin Pijanowski <[email protected]> wrote:

> I changed to 2.
> Now I have only one pref in signplugin.js.
> pref("plugin.state.npsignplugining", 2);
>  
> Attachment includes screenshot after installation plugin. In the attachment is also xpi file. Can you install and check it?
> now is it ok, if not please correct?
>  
> --
> Marcin
>  
> From: Georg Fritzsche [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 2:56 PM
> To: Marcin Pijanowski
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Setting plugin activation state from addons
>  
> On 13 Mar 2014, at 14:37, Marcin Pijanowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Content of signplugin.js.
> pref("dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npsignplugining.dll", false);
>  
> and now I want to add pref - plugin.state.<name>
>  
> plugin.state. = 0 ‘never active’
> plugin.state. = 1 ‘always active’
> plugin.state. = 2 ‘default state, does nothing’
>  
> The value for plugin.state.yourplugin should be:
> * 0 for ‘never activate’ (disable)
> * 1 for ‘ask to activate’ (click-to-play)
> * 2 for ‘always activate’
>  
> The upcoming change sets your plugin state to 1, you want to set it to 2.
>  
> in my case I add
> pref("plugin.state.ING BusinessOnLine", 1);
>  
> The name is probably different, here is what you can do to see how this works:
> Your plugin should get listed in Tools->Addons->Plugins as ‘ask to activate’. 
> There, set it to e.g. ‘always activate’. Now check about:config by filtering for
> “plugin.state.”. There should be an entry for your plugin, probably
> “plugin.state.npsignplugining”.
>  
> pref("dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npsignplugining.dll", false);
>  
> Please don’t use this pref if at all possible, we really want all plugins to run out-
> of-process for stability reasons etc.
>  
> How and where to check whether this solution works correctly?
>  
> Verify by installing and checking the plugin activates or looking at the prefs.
>  
>  
> Georg
> <activePlugin.zip>