Re: XPI from another installer or via CMD

Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:01:53 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpinstall
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anatoly Kaverin wrote:
> hi to everyone.
> 
> our FF Extension ships as a part of installer.
> installer will detect is there any FF installed on PC and show checkbox 
> for option of installing XPI.
> So - we need to install that XPI without interrupting install and in 
> "silent" mode (without FF start up).
> Is this possible ?

In Firefox 1.5 it is possible to iregister extensions in the Windows 
registry so that they will be installed by Firefox automatically, without 
you having to manually find each Firefox installation in your own installer. 
See http://wiki.mozilla.org/Extension_Manager:Win32_Registry_Location

--BDS